Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has censured France and other countries for preaching about human rights and international law while supporting Zionist regime’s and US war crimes.

The Gaza Strip’s ministry of health says more than 5,400 Palestinians have been martyred or wounded in the besieged coastal sliver since the launch of the US-backed so-called “peace plan” and ceasefire process in October 2025.

The Iranian authority controlling the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf has categorically rejected American officials’ claims about reopening of the waterway.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said on Wednesday that around 40 Palestinian journalists are currently being held in Zionist regime’s prisons, including five women, following the arrest of journalist Mohammed Awad from Ramallah earlier in the day.

The Hamas Movement warned on Wednesday of the dangers posed by the Zionist regime’s occupation authorities’ decision to close the Ibrahimi Mosque to worshipers, describing the move as a direct attack on freedom of worship and a violation of the sanctity of Islamic holy sites.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that one Palestinian whose body was recovered from under the rubble, along with two wounded people, had arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared said on Wednesday that around 2,000 people have completely disappeared during Zionist regime’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, with their fate still unknown.

A senior adviser to the chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the recent US-Israeli aggression against Iran has exposed the US military as “weaker than what we perceived,” stressing that Iran emerged victorious after defeating Washington’s main objectives.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s chief commander vows to spare no efforts to fulfill Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei’s demands of the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Israel continues to distort facts in an attempt to absolve itself of responsibility for starving civilians in the Gaza Strip, selectively and misleadingly using data published by UNICEF’s Nutrition Cluster in 2026 to deny the indicators of famine identified by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) in 2025.

The number of Palestinians who have martyred in Zionist regime’s custody since the start of regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 91, following confirmation of the death of detained journalist Ihab Mohammed Abdul Qader Diab in a Zionist regime’s prison, approximately nine months after his arrest and enforced disappearance.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States and the Zionist regime are the only parties to blame for the insecurity that has come to affect the Strait of Hormuz.