Taybad’s Deputy Governor Mohammad Reza Rezaee said firefighters were dispatched to the area to put it out.
He added that a number of vehicles were burned by the blaze.
Rezaee also said the smoke caused by the fire in the economic zone can be seen up to a radius of 18 kilometers, and in order to prevent it from spreading to the border customs areas of Dowqarun, the place is being evacuated.
He added that vehicles headed for the Dowqarun border road are not allowed to enter until further notice.
The research, covering the Palestinian group’s activity until July, finds that while Israel inflicted heavy damage on Hamas, “its units have managed to reconstitute and shift to guerrilla tactics in areas of Gaza declared ‘cleared’ by the Israeli military”, CNN journalist Allegra Goodwin posted on X.
Hamas is likely to continue regrouping and reorganising, as Israel lacks a long-term military plan and a ceasefire does not appear to be in sight, Goodwin added.
In late May, US intelligence sources told Politico only 30 to 35 percent of Hamas fighters have been killed after months of Israel’s military operations against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
According to Politico, the majority of fighters who were members of the Palestinian movement prior to the October 7 attack are still alive.
In addition, around 65 percent of Hamas’ tunnel infrastructure remains intact, Politico’s sources stated, and thousands of new members are said to have been recruited to the group in recent months.
The report came as Washington has become increasingly concerned about the viability of Israel’s stated aim of destroying the Palestinian group.
He then called on the guests to observe a minute of silence to pay respects to humanity and the right of the Palestinian people to decide their fate.
Bagheri however noted that this is the only silence which is permissible in the face of oppression, crime and occupation.
The acting foreign minister added that appeasement and indifference to such heinous acts and injustice is a moral failure and will increase evil acts.
Bagheri said it’s a duty of all countries to not remain silent toward the worst crimes that have remained from the previous century, that is, occupation and bloody colonization of Palestine and the genocide of the Palestinian people.
“For 8 decades now, a nation has been subjected to continuous destruction; its land has been usurped by force, and what is left is under siege”, the acting foreign minister added.
Bagheri also said the shameful tragedy that has been unfolding in occupied Palestine for the last 10 months is not only the product of the cruelty and arrogance of an apartheid occupying entity, but also the result of the sense of impunity on part of criminals who, in any case, rely on the unbridled support of the US and several other western countries.
Bagheri noted that what has made matters worse and has emboldened the Zionist regime is the indifference imposed on the international community.
He said the genocidal project in Gaza is continuing at several levels including the slaughter of women and children and the imposition of a food and drug siege on Gaza.
Iran has the “unquestionable right” to protect its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, Kanaani stressed.
Highlighting the necessary political and legal actions taken by Iran following the assassination of Haniyeh, the spokesman stressed that nobody is allowed to cast doubt on Iran’s legitimate right to retaliate and create deterrence.
“We believe that Iran is entitled to punish the aggressor within the framework of international law… Iran will definitely and decisively take serious and deterrent measures by exercising its inherent right on the basis of international principles to ensure its security.”
Deploring the international organizations’ failure to stand against the Zionist regime’s crimes, Kanaani noted that Iran does not seek an escalation of tensions, but intends to ensure stability.
“Iran believes that stability will be achieved with the punishment of the aggressor,” he added.
The diplomat also stated that the ministerial council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is going to convene in Jeddah on Wednesday at the behest of Iran to discuss the aspects of the martyrdom of Haniyeh.
The Israeli regime assassinated the head of the political bureau of Hamas in Tehran in the early hours of July 31.
Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend the new Iranian president’s swearing-in ceremony, was martyred in a special residence after being hit by an aerial projectile.
According to a report from Axios: “Secretary of State Tony Blinken told his counterparts from the G7 countries on Sunday that an attack by Iran and Hezbollah against Israel could start as early as Monday.”
“Blinken convened the conference call to coordinate with close US allies and try to generate last-minute diplomatic pressure on Iran and Hezbollah to minimize their retaliation as much as possible,” the website stated.
“He stressed that limiting the impact of their strikes is the best chance to prevent all-out war,” it added.
“Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have vowed to respond to the assassinations by Israel of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.”
Axios reported citing its sources that “Blinken stressed that the United States believes Iran and Hezbollah will both retaliate”.
“Blinken said the US doesn’t know the exact timing of the attacks but stressed it could start as early as the next 24-48 hours – meaning as early as Monday,” according to the website.
Tension has escalated between Hezbollah and Israel since Tel Aviv assassinated senior military commander Fouad Shukr in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburb on Tuesday.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was also assassinated in Tehran the following day, in an attack blamed on Israel although Tel Aviv has not confirmed or denied its responsibility.
Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination, while Hezbollah has pledged to respond to Shukr’s killing.
According to the sources, the United States and Arab countries tried to talk Iran into mitigating its position but the Iranian leaders are determined to respond, even if their actions will trigger a war.
Earlier, US deputy national security adviser Jon Finer has stated that the United States thinks that risks for Tel Aviv are high and is ready to help Israel defend itself “should it come under attack again”.
“The overall goal is to turn the temperature down in the region, deter and defend against those attacks, and avoid regional conflict, which has been our goal really since October 7,” Finer said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
He added, “We are in a moment that appears to be of heightened threat.”
On Friday, the Pentagon revealed it was shifting an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, along with its destroyer escorts, from the Pacific to the Middle East. The United States also was transferring ballistic air defense units, similar to its moves in April when it expected (correctly) that Iran would launch missiles and drones at Israel.
The situation in West Asia has escalated dramatically after the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah armed wing commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut. Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah have placed responsibility on Israel and warned about their response.
Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination, while Hezbollah has pledged to respond to Shukr’s killing.
NBC News has reported that Tel Aviv was bracing for a potential multi-day attack from Iran and Hezbollah in the wake of the assassination of Haniyeh and Shukr last week, citing an Israeli official.
“The Zionist regime has been born in a cradle of terrorism, and is not in possession of any of the elements that constitute a nation,” Salami said during an event held in the capital Tehran on the occasion of National Journalists’ Day on Monday.
The commander was referring to the regime’s creation in the West Asia region in 1948 that followed displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a heavily-Western-backed war.
Ever since that year, the regime has been engaging in daily acts of terror against the regional nations as means of both fighting back opposition to its forcible existence and expanding the areas under its occupation.
Salami likened the Israeli regime’s recurrent deadly acts to a “self-made vortex of fire” which has surrounded the regime.
He enumerated some of the instances of aggression as the regime’s killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, and its recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran.
“They think that through these measures, they would succeed in prolonging their survival.”
“These [atrocities] are, however, holes that they (the Israelis) dug for themselves, and will gradually bury themselves in,” Salami stated, adding, “Once they received a strong response, they would understand that they have committed another miscalculation.”
The pope also denounced “attacks, even targeted ones, and killings” in an address to thousands of pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square.
Such attacks “can never be a solution”, he said, adding that they “do not help us walk in the path of justice, the path of peace, but generate even more hatred and revenge”.
Tension has escalated between Hezbollah and Israel since Tel Aviv assassinated senior military commander Fouad Shukr in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburb on Tuesday.
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was also assassinated in Tehran the following day, in an attack blamed on Israel although Tel Aviv has not confirmed or denied its responsibility.
Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination, while Hezbollah has pledged to respond to Shukr’s killing.
Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack last October by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Nearly 39,600 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 91,400 injured, according to local health authorities.
Almost 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice for its actions in the coastal enclave.
Hassan Sabaghian found the package while he was performing his daily work, ILNA reported without specifying the date.
He found the phone number of the owner, the representative of a private company, and contacted him to hand over the package.
The significance of what the man has done becomes more evident when considering that the average salary of a sanitation worker in Iran is about 15 million tomans (240 dollars) per month.
According to the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, 80 percent of those killed and injured in the strikes on Sunday on the Hassan Salama and al-Nasr schools were children.
Sunday’s attacks followed the bombing of a school on Saturday by the Israeli army. At least 15 people were killed in Israeli air raids on the Hamama school in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians.
Following the strikes on Sunday, Nebal Farsakh from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told Al Jazeera that the attacks were “again another proof that there is no safe place in Gaza”.
“These two schools are housing displaced civilians who have been forced to leave multiple times, and now even they have been forced to flee another time after this attack,” she added.
“Israel has been systematically targeting civilians.”
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military also issued a new order for Palestinians to leave the southern and southeastern parts of Khan Younis in Gaza, as the army widens its aggression.
Earlier this month, the United Nations announced more than 86 percent of Gaza has already been impacted by Israel’s so-called evacuation orders, with most people asked to live in small “safe zones” that have also repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.
At least 39,583 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its Gaza offensive in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Up to 91,398 others have been injured during 10 months of devastating war.
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