FM Pledges Iran’s Continued Support for Palestine

In a Sunday meeting with Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah in Tehran, Zarif congratulated Palestine on the recent victory of the Islamic resistance in the tough 51-day war imposed by Israel.

"Palestinians’ victory in that war and the previous victories of the brave Palestinian nation have proved the falsehood of the stories about the invincibility of the Zionist regime and its armed forces," the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s official website quoted Zarif as saying.

Abdullah, for his part, appreciated Iran for its supports for the Palestinian nation.

"The resistance of the Palestinian nation in the 51-day war in confrontation with an army equipped with one of the largest arsenals of the world was both great and exemplary," said the visiting Palestinian figure.

Over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians including more than 490 children, were killed in Gaza during a war that broke out on July 8, after Israel launched an offensive on the coastal enclave of 1.8 million population.

Thousands of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged by the Israeli offensive.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said 540,000 people had been displaced in the Gaza Strip.

However, the Zionist regime achieved none of its objectives in the war and was ultimately forced into accepting a ceasefire and conditions set by resistance movements in Palestine.

On August 26, a ceasefire deal between Palestinians and Israel, which was mediated in Cairo, took effect.

The truce, which ended seven weeks of Israeli brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip, called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt and a widening of the territory's fishing zone in the Mediterranean.