Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that Israel is committing "shameless crimes" against children, not combatants.
Khamenei said Israel was not even hiding its different forms of "shameless crimes" in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria.
It is not combating "fighting men, but ordinary people", he told a group of envoys from Muslim countries in Tehran in remarks broadcast on state TV.
"Unable to hurt the real fighters in Palestine, they are venting their malicious anger on small children, on hospital patients, and on schools filled with young children."
Also on Saturday, in a show of strength, Iran unveiled its "Jihad" single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive detachable warhead and a range of 1,000 kilometres, according to state TV.
The missiles were displayed, along with other military hardware, during a parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980–88 war with Iraq.