Millions of people in Iran and across the Muslim world rally on the International Quds Day, marked on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, to express their solidarity with Palestinians in their decades-long resistance against the Israeli occupying regime.
Back in 1979, the founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini named the last Friday of the blessed month of Ramadan the Quds Day to keep the Palestinian cause alive in the Muslim world.
The day is marked every year across the globe with the participation of large masses of people.
Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif, the spokesman of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and the director-general of Intifada headquarters in Tehran, said in a news briefing on Wednesday that the pro-Palestine rallies would be held in more than 2,000 locations across the country.
Stressing that IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami will be the keynote speaker of Quds Day in the Iranian capital, Sharif said Tehran will also witness the funeral ceremony of the martyrs of the Israeli aggression on the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus on Monday.
This year’s rallies take place as Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have been under Israel’s incessant bombardment campaign since Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, the largest military operation by Palestinian resistance groups against the occupied territories in decades.
More than 180 days into the war, the illegal entity has achieved no objectives despite killing at least 33,037 people in Gaza and injuring 75,668 others, mostly women and children.
Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
Speaking at the news briefing, Sharif underlined that the slogan of this year’s Quds Day march is, “Quds Day, from al-Aqsa Storm to al-Ahrarr (freedom seekers) Storm.”
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