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Iran: Operation al-Aqsa Flood 'turning point' in Palestinian fight against Israel

Monday, 07 October 2024 5:34 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 07 October 2024 5:43 PM ]

The file photo shows a view of the Iranian Foreign Ministry building in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says Operation al-Aqsa Flood against Israel was a “turning point” in the history of the Palestinian people’s legitimate fight against the Tel Aviv regime’s occupation and oppression.

The ministry issued a statement on the occasion of the first anniversary of Operation al-Aqsa Flood, which was launched by the Palestinian resistance movements against the Israeli regime in retaliation for its intensified atrocities.

“Operation al-Aqsa Flood was the outburst of the pent-up historical anger of the Palestinian people against eight decades of occupation, killing and genocide.”

During decades of its occupation of the Palestinian territories, it said, the apartheid Zionist regime has implemented the policy of genocide and displacement of the people of Palestine and the desecration of holy sites with the support of its Western allies, especially the United States.

The statement said the Israeli regime has over the past year intensified the policy of genocide, mass killing and organized terrorism against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as well as against the Lebanese nation.

It emphasized that Israel is currently hated more than ever in the public opinion of the world's free nations who demand the prosecution and trial of the regime’s leaders for committing the most serious crimes, particularly genocide.

The ministry described as a “great loss” the assassination of top figures and Resistance leaders, including Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

However, it said, the pure blood of these martyrs will strengthen the Palestinian cause and resistance against Israel.

Resistance is not currently limited to Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Muslim countries as hatred towards Israel’s occupation and genocide has become a global trend, the statement said.