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Aggression against Iran

Iran has urged the UN and Security Council to unequivocally condemn the acts of aggression by Israel and the US against the country's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Iranian UN envoy also urged the world body to recognize Israel and the US as the initiators of aggression against Iran. Amir Saeid Iravani made the call in a letter to the UN chief and president of the Security Council. He said the deliberate targeting of Iran’s civilian nuclear infrastructure threatens international peace and security, and undermines the non-proliferation regime. Iravani said the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report does not substantiate any breach by Iran of its safeguards obligations. Therefore, he added, the attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear sites violates the country's inalienable right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Iravani said the US must be held fully accountable for its direct aggression, and its unequivocal complicity in Israel's large-scale military aggression against Iran. He noted that failure to do so renders the UN complicit in US violations, and risks irreparable damage to the very principles upon which it was founded.

US-Israeli Gaza genocide

Death and destruction is ravaging Gaza, as the Israeli military keeps pounding the blockaded territory with intense air and artillery strikes. In one of the latest strikes, at least four people were killed and several others injured after Israeli warplanes bombed residential buildings in the town of Zawaida, central Gaza. Six civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed after a two-story house was bombed in Deir al-Balah, also in central Gaza. Fatalities were reported after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid near Wadi Gaza Bridge. The deadliest of the attacks, however, happened after the Israeli military struck a coffee shop near the Gaza coast, killing over 30 people and injuring dozens of others. A Palestinian journalist was among the fatalities, raising the number of media workers killed in the Gaza genocide to 227. The Israeli genocide in Gaza, which began in October 2023, has so far killed more than 56-thousand-530 people, leaving over 133,600 others injured.

'End aggression against Gaza'

More than 50 global and Arab trade unions have issued a statement, demanding an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip. The unions, consisting of major trade groups from different continents, also demanded the lifting of the siege of Gaza, and support for the rights of Palestinian workers. They said the ongoing Israeli aggression has caused more than 500,000 Palestinian workers to lose their livelihoods. The unions stressed that the destruction in Gaza has reached unimaginable levels, with entire neighborhoods devastated, and workers killed simply because they were trying to survive. They said what is happening in Gaza is not just a war, but a systematic extermination targeting the existence of an entire people. The unions held the regime fully responsible for the crimes committed in Gaza. They called for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, permanent opening of Gaza's crossings, delivery of unrestricted humanitarian and medical aid, and a halt to arms exports to Israel. The unions also condemned the regime's use of siege and starvation as weapons of war.

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