Iran space program
Iran’s space agency has successfully launched its latest bio-capsule on board a home-grown space launcher dubbed Salman. The project is in line with plans to revive different sectors of the country’s space industry and utilize the know-how acquired in the bio-space domain. The 500-kilogram bio-capsule is a scientific, research and technological device sent into an altitude of 130 kilometers above the earth’s surface. The project is in keeping with a road map to launch a manned mission into space and to develop and get the required technologies. Salman is the first of this class of domestically-developed launchers and enjoys high-tech features.
HRW slammed for biased report
A Palestinian doctor has slammed the US-based Human Rights Watch for issuing an unsubstantiated report on the massacre committed by Israel at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Ghassab Abu Sittah says the US-based group has blamed the attack on a Palestinian Rocket, without interviewing eyewitnesses.
Targeting Israel troops in Gaza
As the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continues, Palestinian resistance fighters also keep up their retaliatory operations, dealing a severe blow to invading regime troops. Hamas has released a video showing that the al-Qassam Brigades, the movement’s military wing, killed some 60 Israeli soldiers inside their tents in the Juhr al-Dik area of central Gaza. Hamas fighters closed in on Israeli positions stealthily, planted bombs around their tents and detonated the explosives simultaneously. Resistance forces then withdrew to their positions safely. Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced it has lost 9 of its troops in the fighting in northern and southern Gaza. Israel has confirmed the killing of 90 troops since it launched a ground operation in Gaza about five weeks ago. Fatalities among Israeli soldiers are believed to be much higher as the regime doesn’t disclose the exact figure.