IRIB Chief: Iranian State TV Reporter Captured by Zionists in Gaza
Peyman Jebelli, speaking to reporters about the situation of the detained IRIB reporter in Gaza, stated that based on the follow-ups conducted, this reporter has been captured by the Zionist regime and is still imprisoned within the occupied territories, and is not in Gaza now.
Jebelli added that the family of this reporter initially did not wish for the matter to be publicized.
He also pointed to the launch of the Press TV network in Turkish, stating that the opening of this network is a response to the widespread interest of the Muslim people of Turkey in the programs of Iran’s overseas broadcasting networks, especially the English-language Press TV and the Azerbaijani-language networks.
He added that recently Press TV issued a call for collaboration from Turkey, which received a very positive and widespread reception, and in response to this interest, efforts were made to initiate new activities in Turkish.
Source: Ifp Media Wire
2 Israeli reservists captured on suspicion of ‘espionage for Iran’
An Israeli police spokesman said in a statement on Monday that the primary suspect, Yuri Eliasfov, served in the Israeli army’s Iron Dome anti-air missile unit and passed along classified material obtained during his military service to Iranians.
Contact between Eliasfov and the Iranian agent started in September 2024, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz claimed.
Months later, Eliasfov purportedly recruited his friend, Georgi Andreyev, and put him in contact with the same Iranian handler.
Andreyev supposedly served in the Israeli military’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The pair allegedly spray-painted graffiti and hung pro-Iranian banners in Tel Aviv.
Police accuse the two 21-year-old suspects, both from the northern side of the occupied territories, of security offenses — transferring classified information and aiding Iran during wartime.
Prosecutors are expected to bring an indictment against them within the coming days.
Back on October 14 last year, Shin Bet and the Israeli police said they had arrested two settlers east of Tel Aviv on charges of espionage for Iran.
They claimed in a joint statement that 30-year-old Vladislav Viktorson, a resident of Ramat Gan, his 18-year-old partner Anna Bernstein and another unnamed Ramat Gan resident.
The trio purportedly carried out various acts of sabotage and vandalism, including spraying provocative graffiti and putting up posters, setting fire to cars near Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, and acts of arson in local forests, at the behest of an individual identified as “Mari Hossi”, who gave them instructions in Hebrew.
Later, Viktorson was allegedly asked to sabotage communication networks and ATMs and to set fire to forests. He was even tasked with locating homeless individuals for recruitment and photographing protesters during demonstrations.
Viktorson and Bernstein filmed some of the sabotage they engaged in and were paid $5,000.
The statement said Hossi then asked Viktorson to kill a high-profile Israeli figure, whose identity remains unknown, by throwing a hand grenade into his house.
Viktorson agreed to do so and tried to purchase weapons, including sniper rifles, pistols, and grenades. Viktorson and Bernstein were indicted on security offenses.
Source: Ifp Media Wire
Officials say over 300k displaced Palestinians return north of Gaza
“Today, more than 300,000 displaced Palestinians from the southern and central governorates returned to the Gaza and northern governorates via al-Rashid and Salah al-Din streets,” the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip said on Monday.
“This comes after 470 days of the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation army,” it reminded, referring to the war that began in October 2023 and claimed the lives of at least 47,000 Palestinians and destroy the biggest part of the Palestinian territory.
The office stressed that the returnees as well as those, who were already in Gaza, “urgently” required 135,000 tents and caravans, “as the destruction inflicted by the Israeli occupation army in these areas has exceeded 90%.”
“We call on the international community, international and United Nations organizations, and Arab states to open the crossings and bring in essential supplies to shelter our dignified Palestinian people,” the body noted.
Despite the massive toll that the brutal Israeli military onslaught has taken on Gazans, the ceasefire agreement has been hailed as a victory by Palestinians and their supporters.
Those in favor of the deal stress that it came by amid the regime’s desperation in the face of interminable and successful anti-Israeli operations by the region’s resistance movements.
They also assert that the agreement was brought about, despite the regime’s falling short of realizing its wartime objectives, including “elimination” of Gaza’s resistance groups, enabling the return of the Zionists, who have been captured by the movements, and prompting forced exodus of Gaza’s entire population to neighboring Egypt.
Source: Ifp Media Wire