Press TV – June 28, 2025
Iran holds grand funeral for martyrs of Israeli-US aggression
Iran is holding a grand funeral service for those martyred in the 12-day aggression by Israel and the US against the Islamic Republic.
The funeral in capital Tehran for 60 nuclear scientists, military commanders and civilians martyred in Israeli strikes began at 8:00 am (0430 GMT) in Enqelab Square on Saturday, proceeding to Azadi Square, about 11 kilometers across the sprawling metropolis.
A huge crowd of mourners is participating in the procession, accompanying coffins with chants of "death to Israel" and "death to America".
Mohsen Mahmoudi, head of Tehran's Islamic Development Coordination Council, called it a "historic day for Islamic Iran and the revolution".
Among the martyrs is Mohammad Bagheri, a major general and the second-in-command of the armed forces after the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
He will be buried alongside his wife and daughter, a journalist for a local media outlet, all martyred in an Israeli attack in Tehran.
Nuclear scientist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, also martyred in the savage aggression, will be buried with his wife.
Chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami, who was martyred on the first day of the unprovoked aggression, will also be laid to rest after Saturday's ceremony — which will also honor at least 30 other top commanders.
Of the 60 people who are to be laid to rest after the ceremony, four are children.
Iranian officials say more than 600 people, mostly civilians, were martyred in Israeli and US aggression against Iran.
The ceremony coincides with the second day of the Islamic month of Muharram, which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the third Shia Imam, and his 72 companions.
In 680 AD, Imam Hussein and his followers fought bravely for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I, in the Battle of Karbala, in southern Iraq.
Sirens sound in Israeli-occupied territories as Yemen launches fresh missile attack
Air raid sirens have sounded across multiple locations in the Israeli-occupied territories following the launch of a ballistic missile by the Yemeni Armed Forces toward the occupying Zionist entity in retaliation for the regime’s ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to Israeli media, the fresh missile attack from Yemen triggered sirens in Beersheba, Dimona, and towns in the surrounding area south of the occupied lands on Saturday morning.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The Israeli military claimed in a brief statement that its anti-air missile systems were working to shoot down the projectile.
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement stated on Thursday that the Arab nation’s forces have launched 309 ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as combat drones, at Israeli-occupied territories since mid-March, as part of the second phase of their military campaign against the Zionist regime.
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said 25 missiles and drones were launched this month alone in what he described as “qualitative military operations in support of Gaza.”
He reaffirmed that the strategic Red Sea remains closed to Israeli-linked maritime traffic.
Houthi also vehemently lashed out at the Tel Aviv regime over continuing its bloody offensive in Gaza with US backing.
As the genocidal war on Gaza escalated, the Yemenis enforced a strategic blockade on essential maritime routes, with the goal of obstructing the delivery of military supplies to Israel and urging the international community to take action regarding the ongoing humanitarian emergency in Gaza.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have declared they will not stop their assaults unless Israel ceases its ground and aerial offensives in Gaza, where more than 56,300 Palestinians have been killed since the onset of war on October 7, 2023.
Israeli strike kills Red Crescent nurse in Gaza, raising medic death toll to 50
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says a nurse at one of its clinics in Gaza has been killed in a new Israeli attack, bringing the number of PRCS medical personnel killed since the start of the genocidal war in October 2023 to 50.
In a statement on Friday, the PRCS said Haitham Bassam Abu Issa, a nurse at the PRCS clinic in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, was killed while off duty on Thursday.
“This brings the total number of PRCS staff and volunteers killed during the conflict to 50 – a deeply shocking figure,” the statement added.
The humanitarian organization, Action Against Hunger, also announced that two of its staff members, Mohammed Hussein and Obada Abu Issa, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in a densely populated area of Gaza.
According to the charity, neither of the two aid workers was on duty at the time of the raid, which occurred on Thursday.
Mohammed, 20, had worked as an office guard and was hoping to renew his contract. “He gave those around him sincere support without asking for anything in return,” the NGO said.
Obada, 30, was a field assistant with the water, sanitation and hygiene team. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
Action Against Hunger has urged “the protection of civilians, including humanitarian workers” and called for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire”.
The organization stressed that it will continue its mission in Gaza in defiance of Israeli massacres.
Israel waged the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Since then, at least 56,331 Palestinians have been killed, and 132,632 others injured.
Israel has also imposed a complete blockade on Gaza as part of the regime’s wider plan to expel Palestinians from the besieged strip.
