Following Iran's retaliatory attack on "Israel", described widely as unprecedented, the Venezuelan government issued a statement in support of Palestine, stressing that the situation of instability in the Middle East is due to the Israeli genocide against Gaza and the "irrationality of the Israeli regime." 

The statement read, "The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela follows the worrying developments developing in the Middle East."

The government's statement highlighted the worsening instability in the region, particularly in recent weeks, blaming it on "Israel's" irrationality and its genocide in Palestine, in addition to the United Nations' inaction. 

Peace, Venezuela said, can only be guaranteed "once justice and International Law are reestablished, mainly with regard to the Palestinian people and State."

"Venezuela advocates the construction of peace with justice as most countries in the world want," the statement emphasized. 

El Gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela sigue los preocupantes acontecimientos en desarrollo en el Medio Oriente. Producto del genocidio en Palestina y la irracionalidad del régimen de Israel, así como de la inacción del Sistema de Naciones Unidas, la situación de… pic.twitter.com/BSzRb9D7Ov

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Iran responds to Israeli attack on embassy 

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force announced today that it targeted Israeli positions in occupied Palestine with dozens of drones and missiles, as part of the retaliatory response to the malicious Israeli crime against the Iranian embassy in Syria. 
 
Described as "unprecedented" by a Sky News correspondent, the IRGC's Aerospace Force announced that the operation, dubbed "True Promise", was launched in the context of "punishing the criminal Zionist regime."

The force said that the operation came "in response to the numerous evil crimes of the Zionist regime," including the attack on the embassy. It said that its forces, supported by other units of the Iranian Armed Forces, launched the "wide-ranging" military operation. 

The statement added that the operation was conducted with the approval of the Supreme National Security Council and under the supervision of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, with the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the backing of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces.

"Details of this operation will soon draw the attention of the heroic Iranian people and the free peoples of the world," the statement concluded.

Later the IRGC announced that it targeted Israeli military sites that successfully hit and destroyed their targets.

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