The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force vowed Friday that Tehran and other members of the “axis of resistance” will prevent Israel from achieving its goals in Gaza, including the elimination of Hamas.
“Your axis brothers are united with you,” Esmail Qaani said in a message to Mohamad Deif, head of the Ezzeldin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Qaani said in the message that the Axis allies “will not allow the enemy to achieve its dirty objectives in Gaza and Palestine.”
He described the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel as “a great epic,” according to the Iranian news agency IRNA.
“They clearly showed the weakness and fragility of the Zionist usurper regime and practically and decisively demonstrated that the regime is weaker than a spider’s web,” he said.
In the unprecedented attack on October 7, the extremist group Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
Qaani stated that Palestine and the region “will not be the same as before” after the Hamas attacks, known as the “Al Aqsa Storm.”
He added that the clashes against the Israeli Army in Gaza “demonstrate that the resistance is capable of innovating,” according to IRNA, cited by the Spanish agency Europa Press.
Israel has stated that the goal of the offensive in the Gaza Strip is to eradicate Hamas, which has controlled the small Palestinian territory since 2007.
The conflict is also marked by Israeli clashes with the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah on the Lebanese border and attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against Israeli territory.
Several countries in the region have warned of the risk of escalation and have called for a ceasefire, which has so far been rejected by Israel and its allies, while Iran has ruled out the possibility of openly participating in the war.
Authorities in Islamist-controlled Gaza reported that more than 11,500 people had been killed by the Israeli offensive.
Palestinians also say more than 180 people have been killed in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem at the hands of Israeli security forces and in settler attacks.
Source: TSF
