Venezuelan president condemns Israeli strikes on Iran

By Sinan Dogan and Yasin Gungor

BOGOTA, Colombia/ISTANBUL (AA) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro condemned Israeli attacks on Iran and declared solidarity with Tehran.

Speaking to state television VTV, Maduro criticized Israel's extensive attacks targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and military command centers across different cities.

The Venezuelan leader affirmed his country's solidarity with Iran, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and all Muslim and Arab peoples.

Maduro also criticized international silence over Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and called for stopping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions.

He argued that Israel has been armed and funded with money, aircraft and missiles "to kill thousands of children, women, men and elderly people."