Protests in Tehran, different cities had been held in ‘support of the oppressed children of Gaza’ below the slogan ‘Palestine is not alone’.
Hundreds of Iranians held rallies throughout the nation towards Israel’s unrelenting bombardment of Gaza, with a prime navy commander warning that Israel was heading for an extended and bloody warfare with Palestinian group Hamas.
The demonstrations on Saturday within the capital Tehran and different cities had been held in “support of the oppressed children of Gaza” below the slogan “Palestine is not alone”, in line with native media.
Israel’s air and floor marketing campaign has killed an estimated 12,000 folks within the Palestinian territory, together with 5,000 kids, in line with Palestinian authorities.
Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s October 7 attacks which Israeli officers say killed about 1,200 folks, most of them civilians, and during which about 240 people were taken captive.
“Palestine stands on the path of a war of attrition … Israel will face a definitive defeat and end up in the dustbin of history,” Commander Hossein Salami from the highly effective Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advised the rally in Tehran, which was aired reside on state TV.
“The battle is not over. The Islamic world will do whatever it has to do. There are still great [unused] capacities left,” Salami stated, with out referring to any attainable strikes by Iran to affix the battle.
“The Zionist regime [Israel] can no longer see peace and security. Muslims will take revenge on behalf of the oppressed people of Gaza, and this revenge has no expiration date.”
In Tehran, demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, whereas others held banners that learn, “Down with America” and “Down with Israel”, in line with the AFP information company.
Others set alight Israeli flags, whereas some waved the flags of Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, Iran’s ally, which has been engaged in border skirmishes with Israel since October 7.
State tv additionally confirmed some protesters carrying bundled white shrouds symbolising the youngsters killed in Gaza, throughout the marches held prematurely of World Youngsters’s Day on Monday.
Comparable demonstrations befell in different main cities together with Shiraz, Kerman and Isfahan.
Earlier this week, a whole lot of physique baggage had been specified by Palestine Sq. in Tehran to protest towards the persevering with Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Iran has made help for the Palestinian trigger a centrepiece of its international coverage because the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iran, which helps Hamas financially and militarily, has hailed the October 7 assaults a “success” however denied any involvement.
It has additionally lambasted Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as “genocide” whereas denouncing america over its help for Israel.
On Saturday, Iran’s Ministry of International Affairs spokesperson Nasser Kanani decried Israel’s “attacks” on hospitals in Gaza.
“Attacking hospitals is in conflict with all human rights standards, international law and Geneva Conventions and makes the criminal nature of this regime even more obvious to the world,” he stated on X.
His assertion got here as a whole lot of individuals fled Gaza’s principal al-Shifa Hospital, the place greater than 2,000 sufferers, medics and displaced folks had been trapped.
Israel has been urgent navy operations contained in the hospital, looking for a Hamas operations centre it claims lies below the sprawling complicated – a cost Hamas has denied.
