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By Staff Reporter
- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it attacked three US-affiliated vessels and three oil tankers using an “unauthorised” route in the Strait of Hormuz.
- The claim came after the US military said it struck and destroyed three Iranian crude oil tankers in retaliation for attacks on US warships.
- Hassan Ghashghavi, a lawmaker and spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, has framed the attacks on US warships as part of “an existential war with America”, arguing that Washington’s naval blockade “should never have existed” in the first place.
- Israeli forces have bombed Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon and launched artillery attacks on the outskirts of al-Rafid in southern Syria.
- Rescue teams in Gaza City have recovered the remains of 55 Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on the Malka family home on November 19, 2023.
