Iran hails Palestinians’ unity deal as 'valuable step' towards reconciliation, consensus
Iran has welcomed a China-mediated agreement aimed at resolving a rift between Palestinian factions and forming a national unity government, calling it a "valuable step" towards national reconciliation and consensus.
"The recent meeting of Palestinian groups in Beijing, focused on national reconciliation and unity, is a valuable step in the right direction," spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kan’ani wrote in a post published on the social media platform X on Friday.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, he maintained, will continue to "firmly" support the Palestinian cause and the consensus among Palestinian groups to confront the "apartheid Israeli regime."
Tehran backs the collective Palestinian effort for restoration of the fundamental right of self-determination, full liberation of Palestinian lands, and establishment of an independent Palestinian state with holy al-Quds as its capital, he added.
Palestinian groups on Tuesday reached a reconciliation agreement following three days of intensive talks in the Chinese capital Beijing to end their political division since 2007.
Representatives of 14 Palestinian groups, including Fatah and Hamas movements, signed a new statement pledging to end the division and strengthen unity.
Signatories of the agreement said they would form an interim national unity government to supervise the reconstruction of the war-torn Gaza Strip and hold new elections.
The announcement of the Palestinian ‘national unity’ deal comes more than nine months after Israel launched the war on Gaza following Palestinian resistance groups’ surprise retaliatory operation into the occupied territories.
So far during the military onslaught, the regime has killed at least 39,175 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Another 90,403 Palestinians have sustained injuries as well.
China has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, and supportive of a so-called two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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