Resistance Victory Made Zionist Regime More Despised in World
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian cleric said world people hate the Zionist regime of Israel more than before as a result of the victory of the Palestinian resistance after 51 days of Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Addressing a large group of worshippers here in Tehran on Friday, the city’s Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Sediqi congratulated the Palestinian resistance groups for their triumph in the war against Israel, and said the victory has made the occupying regime more loathed in the world.
Ayatollah Sediqi described the Palestinians’ success in the 51-day Gaza war as a “miracle of resistance”.
He added that Tel Aviv’s defeat added yet another page to the “heavy book of (crimes committed by) child-killing Israel”.
This week, Gazans celebrated victory after seven weeks of resistance against the Israeli attacks.
On Tuesday, Palestinian groups and Egyptian mediators confirmed that the Cairo-based talks ended in truce.
Palestinians poured into the streets of the war-torn sliver to celebrate as the Egyptian-brokered truce took effect.
People and traffic filled the streets with drivers honking horns and crowds chanting slogans.
The truce stipulates the removal of Israeli blockade as well as the provision of a guarantee that Palestinian demands will be met.
Crossings between Israel and Gaza will open and the two sides will continue holding indirect talks, according to the deal.
The Palestinian territory's fishing zone will also be widened in the Mediterranean.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said the deal marks a victory for Palestinians and called for mass rallies in the occupied West Bank.
A total of 2,142 people, most of them civilians including more than 490 children, have been killed in Gaza since war broke out on July 8, after Israel launched an offensive on the coastal enclave of 1.8 million population.
A total of 69 people have been killed on the Israeli side, nearly all of them soldiers.
Elsewhere in his Friday prayers sermon, Ayatollah Sediqi referred to the atrocities committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group against the Iraqi people and expressed the hope that the improvement of the political situation in Iraq will lead to the elimination of terrorist groups in the country.
After months of unrest and political turmoil, Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on August 11 officially commissioned Haider al-Abadi, the Shiite coalition's nominee for prime minister, to form the next government.
Iraq has faced turmoil caused by the ISIL in the north and west since early June.
The crisis deteriorated in recent weeks, as the militants swept over new towns in the north, forcing members of the minorities out of their homes.
The ISIL terrorists have threatened various communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
