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Tehran, Iran - 18 October 2023
1. Protesters chanting during anti-Israeli protest
2. Tilt-up from sign reading (Arabic/English/Farsi): "War criminal" to hanging effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
3. Protesters holding pictures of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, flags of Palestine as well as Hezbollah and other militant groups
4. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND: "Oh, brave leader! We are ready!"
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's president:
"The Islamic Ummah (peoples) and people around the world demand that bombardments of civilian areas end urgently."
6. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND: "Death to America"
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's president:
"What the Islamic Ummah and people around the world demand is an urgent end to the siege against the people of Gaza, and speedy delivery of aid to them."
8. Coffin symbolically wrapped in Israeli flag, tilt up to Raisi
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's president:
"The Iranian people, the Muslim community around the globe and all liberated people want political ties with the Zionist regime to be severed promptly, its ambassadors are expelled and its embassies are closed."
10. Protesters chanting
STORYLINE:
Iran's president called on Wednesday on Muslim countries to sever ties with Israel, speaking as the latest Israel-Hamas war continued into its 11th day.
"The Iranian people, the Muslim community around the globe and all liberated people want political ties with the Zionist regime to be severed promptly, its ambassadors are expelled and its embassies are closed," Ebrahim Raisi said.
Addressing an anti-Israel protest held in Tehran to condemn a deadly hospital blast in Gaza, he said people from the Islamic world and all around the world "demand that bombardments of civilian areas end urgently."
There were conflicting claims of who was responsible for the hospital blast. Officials in Gaza quickly blamed an Israeli airstrike.
Israel denied it was involved and released a flurry of video, audio and other information that it said showed the blast was instead due to a missile misfire by Islamic Jihad, another militant group operating in Gaza.
The Islamic Jihad dismissed that claim.
The Associated Press has not independently verified any of the claims or evidence released by the parties.
State media said other Iranian cities and towns held similar gatherings in support of the Palestinians and protest to Israeli actions.
Iran announced a day of mourning on Wednesday in response to the hospital blast.
The Israeli military has pounded Hamas-ruled Gaza with airstrikes, blocked deliveries of food, water, fuel and electricity and told people to leave the northern half of the strip ahead of a possible ground invasion.
Since conflict began on 7. October, Gaza authorities say 2,800 people have died and 11,000 have been injured during days of bombardment.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, and at least 199 others, including children, were captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza, according to Israel.
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