Hamas has strongly condemned Israel’s assassination of a senior Iranian military advisor in the vicinity of the Sayyida Zeinab area in the countryside of Damascus.
“The assassination of General Razi Mousavi by the Zionist enemy in Syria is a cowardly crime and aggression, as well as a violation of the sovereignty of an Arab country,” it said in a statement on Thursday.
“We offer our condolences to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and emphasize that the enemy’s crimes inside and outside Palestine will not succeed in breaking the will of our people and nation and suppressing our resistance,” it added.
The IRGC said in a statement on Monday that Gen. Mousavi was assassinated in an Israeli “missile attack.” Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi issued a message the same day, warning that Israel “will certainly pay for this crime.”
Another Gaza-based resistance group, Islamic Jihad, has pledged that Israel should await a decisive response to its “cowardly” assassination of Gen. Mousavi.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad said the general had played a pivotal role in supporting regional resistance forces as well as the Palestinian nation, resistance, and cause.
“The occupying regime’s dirty assassination operation proves once again that this criminal regime contaminates the entire region and its only job is to shed blood and spread murder and crimes,” it added.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has said Mousavi’s assassination had been carried out with “direct coordination and participation of the US and the West”.
“This crime will have no result other than escalating attacks by the resistance against the Zionist regime and its mercenaries in the region,” it said in a statement.
“We will never allow the occupying, criminal and cowardly enemy to feel safe and stable in the region. It must always live in terror and panic and await the next response,” it added.
