Diplomat Sees Palestine Outrage as Reaction to Israeli Crimes
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister described the occasional bursts of anger by the Palestinian people as a result of the Israeli regime’s continuous atrocities.
“What is going on in this region (Palestine) is the reaction of the Palestinian people to the Zionist regime’s daily aggression,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian told IRNA on Tuesday.
He was referring to an incident in which four Israelis were killed in an attack on a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of West al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Tuesday morning.
Two Palestinian men, reportedly armed with a pistol and axes, entered the synagogue, killed at least four Israelis and injured several others including two police officers. The assailants were then shot dead by Israeli forces.
The incident is seen as a response to the recent hanging of Hassan Yousef Rammouni, a young Palestinian bus driver, by Israeli settlers.
Rammouni, 32, was driving back home from work on November 16 when he was abducted and then hanged by Israelis in his bus in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East al-Quds.
Elsewhere in his comments, Amir Abdollahian said the Tel Aviv regime’s brazen acts have paved the way for a third Intifada (uprising) in Palestine.
“The Zionist regime’s impudent measures to continue constructing settlements in the Palestinian lands and Judize the al-Aqsa Mosque have prepared the ground for the third Intifada,” noted the diplomat.
