Iran Vows Support for Gaza Reconstruction, Boost to Palestine’s Defense Power

“Reconstruction of Gaza and upgrading (Palestine’s) defensive capability against the strikes by the child-murderer regime (Israel) are on Iran’s agenda,” Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said in a meeting with Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah on Wednesday evening.

Shamkhani reassured Abdullah that Tehran will keep supporting the anti-Israeli resistance movement and the oppressed Palestinian nation, and underscored that Tehran will continue to deliver humanitarian assistance, including foodstuff and medicine, to Gaza.

For his part, the Palestinian figure expressed gratitude to the Islamic Republic for its backing of Palestine, stressing that the anti-Israeli resistance groups enjoy a high degree of readiness to counter attacks by the Tel Aviv regime.

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.

Back in July, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on the whole world and the Islamic world in particular to arm the Palestinian nation as much as possible.

Imam Khamenei had also described the armed resistance as the only way to confront the “destructive regime” of Israel.

The Supreme Leader had urged that the West Bank should also be armed like Gaza, recommending those who are interested in Palestine’s destiny to act in this regard in order to relieve Palestinians’ distress.