Al-Aqsa Flood undermined Israeli military strategies: IRGC General

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
12 Nov 2023 22:22

Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour praised the resistance operation as an inevitable outcome of the cruelty, occupation, and massacres Palestinians have endured for over the last 75 years.

IOF troops stationed near the Gaza Strip on November 2, 2023 (AP)

Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force, told Tasnim on Sunday that the Palestinian resistance operation Al-Aqsa Flood has undermined the military strategies of the Israeli regime.

The remarks were delivered as he was conducting an assessment of the IRGC bases in Iran's southwestern border regions to inspect his forces' readiness.

He also praised the resistance operation as an inevitable outcome of the cruelty, occupation, and massacres Palestinians have endured for over the last 75 years.

The general also alluded to the comments made by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, describing them as "accurate and wise," specifically regarding the irreparable damages to the Israeli regime.

Sayed Khamenei specifically said on October 10: "The cause of this destructive storm was the continuous brutality and ferocity of the fake usurper regime against the Palestinian nation. This regime cannot conceal its monstrous and devious face in the attack on Gaza and the massacre of Gazans through the act of lying or by playing the victim. By speaking nonsense, it cannot attribute the bravery of the Palestinian youth and their intelligent plans to non-Palestinians."

Raisi: Muslims must arm Palestinians

On Saturday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi urged Muslim-majority nations to provide weaponry to Palestinians engaged in combat against the IOF.

"Muslim countries should arm the Palestinian people. Resistance is the only answer to Israeli violence. Countries around the world, including Muslim ones, should ensure the protection of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories," he said at a Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh.

"There is no other way but to resist Israel. We are kissing the hands of Hamas for its resistance to the Israeli regime," he added.

"Israel must immediately cease fighting in the Gaza Strip and withdraw its forces from there," he further said, adding that an international trial of Israelis and Americans must be formed to prosecute those responsible for the genocide in Gaza.

"America is the one who ordered its partner, the Zionist regime, to commit crimes against the Palestinians," he declared while reiterating Iran's call for a referendum in the occupied territories as the only solution to the conflict.

War expansion inevitable

On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned that the expansion of "Israel's" war on the Gaza Strip to include the entire region has become inevitable due to the escalation of the occupation's aggression on Gaza.

During a phone call with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that due to the increased intensity of the aggression against civilians in Gaza, expanding the scope of the war has become unavoidable.