Tehran promises to respond to the attack on its consulate

Tehran has promised a harsh response against Israel for the bombing and destruction of its consulate in Damascuswhere the Iranian ambassador was staying, who was unharmed, but which caused at least eight deaths, including an important brigadier general of the Revolutionary Guard.

In one of the heaviest blows to Iran in recent years in Syria, Iran’s ambassador to this country, Hossein Akbarihe said on Iranian state television from Damascus that “the Zionist regime (Israel) is acting against international laws, for which it will receive a harsh response from us.”

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to take countermeasures, i will decide on the type of reaction and punishment of the aggressor“, said the spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Naser Kanani.

The Syrian authorities have accused “Israel’s enemy” of bombing from the Golan Heights occupied Israel against the “Iranian consulate building in Damascus,” according to an unidentified military source, who noted that air defenses shot down “some” of the missiles launched.

Akbari witnessed the attack on the consulate from the embassy window, which he said was carried out by F-35 fighter jets that fired six missiles at Iranian facilities.

So far, Israel has not claimed responsibility for this actionas is usual in their attacks on Syrian territory.

Conflict in Gaza

On the battlefield, Shifa Hospital in Gaza Citythe largest in the entire Strip, is completely out of use after a two-week military operation by the Israeli army, which ended this morning.

“The destruction of the complex makes it impossible to continue work and the hospital is completely out of orderShifa director Marwan Abu Saada told the media.

For its part, the Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip condemned that, after the departure of Israeli troops from the hospital, They found bodies with signs of executionothers calcined and also in the stage of decomposition.

“Most bodies decay and We come to the bodies that are burned skeletons inside the medical complex“Civil Defense spokesman Mahmud Busal said in a statement.

“Is it is difficult to count the number of martyrssince the occupation built roads and buried bodies in and around the Shifa compound,” Busal asserted.

According to Civil Protection data, there are dozens of bodies in residential apartments near the medical complex because of the “occupation massacres”.

Israeli troops, who began the operation on Shifu on March 18, They claim to have killed around 200 alleged militiamen and identified 500 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, after questioning about 800 suspects.