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.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement on Sunday the group had successfully shot down the American drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the airspace over the Yemeni province of Sa’ada.
Saree added that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was targeted with a locally made surface-to-air missile.
According to Saree, this is the seventh aircraft of this kind that the Yemeni fighters have shot down since the start of the operations in support of the Gaza Strip.
The Yemeni fighters have been targeting the occupied territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with the regime since October 7, when Tel Aviv began a genocidal war against the besieged enclave.
They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustained the war and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.
Houthis have been conducting operations against the British and American warships that have been dispatched to the Red Sea to confront the Yemeni strikes.
Public broadcaster KAN said around 4,000 passengers are stuck outside Israel and have contacted the Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv to facilitate their return.
Due to the escalating tension between Israel and Hezbollah, 15 international airlines have canceled their flights to and from Tel Aviv since last Monday, with some suspending flights for at least a few days and others indefinitely.
Flights between Tel Aviv and Eilat in southern Israel were also canceled on Saturday night and throughout Sunday due to the tense security situation, the Israeli paper Maariv added.
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 July 30.
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.
Fears have grown over a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah amid a months-long exchange of cross-border fire.
The escalation comes against the backdrop of an Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed nearly 39,600 victims since last October, following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.
At the end of his 4-year mission on Monday, Sigvald Tomin Hauge wrote on his Instagram account, “I thought eating Kalleh Pacheh for the first time would be a highlight of my last day of work in Iran, but the latest dramatic news dampened the excitement a bit,” referring to the soaring tensions in the region following the assassination of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital.
Hauge also wrote, “I am leaving Iran with very good memories and with the best wishes for the wonderful people of this country.”
Despite at-times wobbly relations between Tehran and Oslo, the Norwegian envoy was a facilitator to improve the bilateral ties in various fields, including medicine and agriculture.
Zelensky confirmed that the fighter jets were in Ukraine in comments posted to his presidential website on Sunday. He pointed to the F-16s while delivering remarks during a ceremony on the Day of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where F-16s, MiG-29 and Su-27 fighter jets flew over the ceremony.
“F-16s are in Ukraine. We made it happen. I am proud of all our guys who are skillfully mastering these aircraft and have already started using them for our state. I thank our team for this important result,” Zelensky said.
“I thank all our partners who are really effectively helping us with the F-16s, and the first states that accepted our request for the provision of the aircraft. Thank you Denmark, the Netherlands, the United States, and all our partners — we appreciate your support,” he continued.
Bloomberg first reported last week that Ukraine had taken delivery of an unspecified number of F-16s.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated last month that the jets were on their way to Ukraine, noting that they are expected to be defending Ukraine’s skies “this summer”.
“Those jets will be flying in the skies of Ukraine this summer, to make sure that Ukraine can continue to effectively defend itself against the Russian aggression,” Blinken said in a statement.
The Joe Biden administration first announced in June 2023 that NATO partners would pledge to provide F-16s to Ukraine after previously not supporting sending the jets to the war-torn country. Zelensky has repeatedly said acquiring F-16s will strengthen Ukraine’s efforts against Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“And I wish our Air Force, all our warriors, to feel the pride of Ukrainians in our combat aviation and to deliver to Ukraine exactly the kind of combat results that will bring our victory — the victory of Ukraine — closer,” Zelensky said in his comments.
Pezeshkian stated that the expectation of the Islamic Republic of Iran from all Islamic countries and freedom-loving people around the world is to strongly condemn such atrocities.
Esmail Haniyeh was killed in a terror act by Israel in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday.
The President deemed the murder of a guest of the Islamic Republic of Iran as an act against all international laws and a significant mistake by the Zionists.
Pezeshkian also highlighted the necessity for Islamic countries to unite in halting the aggressions and crimes of the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.
He emphasized that the core of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy is the promotion and strengthening of peace, tranquility, and stability in the region and the world.
Shamsaei, who had a triumphant year by leading Iran to victory in the Asian Championship, has been recognized for his exceptional leadership and success. This marks his second consecutive nomination for the Best Coach of the Year award.
The list of nominees also features Majid Mortezaei, the Iranian head coach of Afghanistan’s national futsal team. Mortezaei made headlines by successfully qualifying Afghanistan for the World Cup for the first time in history.
Shamsaei is an accomplished professional futsal coach and former player, known for his impressive career as a pivot, during which he scored 392 goals in international matches.
He has been named AFC Futsal Player of the Year on three occasions (2007, 2008, and 2015) and has won eight AFC Futsal Championships with Iran.
Shamsaei is often regarded as the Ali Daei of futsal by the AFC.
In early trading, the TASE 35 index dropped 2.3% to 1,937 points, marking its lowest level since the last week of April, according to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
The poor performance of Wall Street indices on Friday further exacerbated the negative start for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, which has been under pressure since mid-July due to escalating tensions with Hezbollah and Iran.
The TASE 35 Index, also known as the TA-35, is a stock market index that tracks the performance of the 35 largest and most traded companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel.
Tensions are running high amid speculation that Iran is preparing a military response to the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh bigger than the one following an April attack on Iran’s Consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Haniyeh was assassinated on Wednesday in Tehran, Iran’s capital. While Hamas and Iran accused Israel over the killing, Tel Aviv has not confirmed or denied responsibility.
The assassination came a day after Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
Hamas and Iran have vowed to retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination, while Hezbollah has pledged to respond to Shukr’s killing.
Haniyeh’s killing in Tehran on Wednesday, hours after the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut, has triggered pledges of vengeance from Iran and the so-called “axis of resistance“.
Lebanese group Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group Hamas, and the Israeli army have been trading cross-border fire since the Israeli assault on Gaza began in October after Hamas led a rare attack inside the Israeli territory, killing an estimated 1,200 people and taking roughly 240 others captive. At least 39,550 Palestinians have been killed and 91,300 others wounded in Israel’s war on the besieged and bombarded enclave.
Iran-backed groups from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria have already been drawn into Israel’s nearly 10-month war on Gaza. But the assassinations this week of Haniyeh and Shukr have heightened fears of a regional conflagration.
On Saturday, Israel’s ally, the US, said it would move additional warships and fighter jets to the region and asked its citizens in Lebanon to leave on “any ticket available”.
The US embassy in Beirut asked its nationals to “prepare contingency plans” if they choose to stay in Lebanon and be prepared to “shelter in place for an extended period of time”.
The UK’s Foreign Office also urged its citizens in Lebanon to leave “now while commercial options remain available”.
“Tensions are high, and the situation could deteriorate rapidly,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in a statement.
“While we are working round the clock to strengthen our consular presence in Lebanon, my message to British nationals there is clear – leave now.”
On Sunday, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs issued a travel advisory, inviting its citizens in Lebanon to leave “as soon as possible” due to the risk of a military escalation.
“In a highly volatile security context, we once again call the attention of French nationals, particularly those passing through, to the fact that direct commercial flights and ones with stopovers to France are still available,” the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Canada told its nationals to avoid all travel to Israel. “The security situation can deteriorate further without warning,” the Canadian government said in a travel advisory.
The soaring tensions have also forced major airlines, including Dutch airline KLM, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Swiss Airlines, to ground their flights to Israel, Iran and Lebanon.
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