Iranian foreign minister has lauded the Palestinian resistance’s “great achievement” in standing up to Israel’s massive assaults and forcing the regime into agreeing to a truce.
Faraan: Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Monday phone call with Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas, according to a statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Major flare-ups in the occupied territories led to an Israeli incursion into the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday with the regime hitting what it claimed to be a series of military targets in Gaza. The Islamic Jihad movement also responded by launching hundreds of rockets toward the occupied territories, sending Israelis in southern occupied territories including Tel Aviv into shelters.
A truce brokered by the Egyptian mediators between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza went into effect at 11:30 pm local time (2030 GMT) on Sunday, as the movement said it “reserves the right to respond to any Zionist aggression.” “That once again the resistance was able to withstand the Zionist regime’s full-scale military assault and forced them into agreeing to a truce and complying with the resistance’s conditions is a great achievement,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
He further explained that what matters is the fact that only a division of resistance confronted the enemy which reveals the Zionist regime’s weakness and frailty more than ever. The senior diplomat lauded Haniyeh’s stance in keeping resistance groups unanimous and described it as a “great success” for the axis of resistance. Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement after the three-day Israeli aggression that at least 44, including 15 children, have been killed and more than 350 civilians wounded. Two commanders of the Islamic Jihad movement were also killed during the Israeli offensive. Killing women and children demonstrates how desperate and weak the Zionist regime is, Amir-Abdollahian lamented.
