Millions of Muslims across the world held protests to condemn the Israeli regime’s atrocities against the people of Palestine as the Tel Aviv regime is pounding the Gaza Strip with thousands of bombs and imposing a complete siege on the area.
Protests have been held in Iran, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan on Friday with more expected to unfold later in the day. They come as the Hamas resistance movement had called on people to stage rallies on Friday in support of Palestine.
In Iran, tens of thousands of people participated in the nationwide rallies, chanting slogans in support of Palestinians and in condemnation of the United States and the apartheid Tel Aviv regime.
The demonstrators also were carrying pro-Palestine banners. Some Iranian political figures also participated in the protests.
“The intricate, hybrid and heroic Operation al-Aqsa Storm dealt a fatal blow to the temporary and collapsing Zionist regime, which will be recorded in history,” Iran’s Islamic Propagation Organization said in a statement on Friday, noting that the operation marks an irreparable intelligence and military failure for the usurping Israeli regime and an epic victory of the resistance front.
“This surprise and strategic operation in the heart of the occupied territories significantly changed all equations on the ground in favor of Palestinian resistance groups and brave youths, and reaffirmed the strategic depth that liberation of the holy city of al-Quds has both at regional and international levels,” the statement read.
The Islamic Propagation Organization noted that the crushing operation by Palestinian resistance groups “dispelled the Israeli dream of expanding from the Nile to the Euphrates”, showed that “the Zionist regime is weaker than a spider’s web”, and debunked the “invincibility myth of the child-killing regime more than ever.”
“This pre-emptive and innovative operation clearly proved that the era of hit and run has ended, and the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed to ground by the sizeable Islamic resistance front in case Israel makes the slightest mistake,” the statement also read.
“Now that the Zionist enemy has suffered a disgraceful defeat from the Palestinian fighters on the battlefield and sees its prestige as well as military and security position destroyed, it targets the oppressed people of Gaza and insanely bombs mosques, schools and hospitals, and kills innocent civilians. The regime, relying on the help of the Great Satan (the US), is trying to restore its lost reputation.
Palestinian medical authorities say more than 1,500 people have been killed and many more injured due to Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip.
Hospital officials in the Strip have recorded the death of 1,572 civilians and injury of 7,262 others. A large number of buildings, homes and public facilities have also been badly damaged due to heavy Israeli bombardments.
