press tv's news in rief, more than hundred people have been killed in overnight israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, the israeli genocidal war is nearing its fifth month with a... focal point of the attacks now being the south, including khan, the total death toll from the non-stop strikes has stopped 27,000. more than two dozen aid ngos raised the alarm over donor country's decision to suspend funding to the un agency for palestinian refugees. aid ngos warned that the reckless decision may lead to complete collapse of humanitarian response in the gaza strip.

gazans release from israeli detention after being kidnapped by the regime's forces share horrowing accounts of torture and abuse that they were exposed to. the kidnapped gazen say they were beaten denied food and water and prevented from going uh to the bathroom. the syrian military says it is down a number of the israeli missiles that were launched from the occupied golan heights on south damascus three people. including an iranian military advisor were killed in the israeli strikes. syrian media also reported material damage. iran's president says his country will not start a war, but will respond decisively to anyone who bullies it. ibrahim risy said iran's military might poses no threat to the west asia region, adding that regional countries can rely on the isamic republic's military power.

over the past seven decades or so, the relationship between iran and israel has been ebbing and flowing, running the whole gamet from being strategic allies to becoming arch foes. years of multi-layered cooperation were followed by decades of outright hostility after the victory of the islamic revolution of iran in 1979, confronting israel became a permanent fixture in iran's foreign policy, and for israel, the regime did whatever in its power to harm the country from acts of sabotage to assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists. but what did link them together in the first place, and why did they get separated overnight? what did they do during the friendship time, and later when they came at logger heads with one another, these...