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Raisi: Israel achieved none of its goals in Gaza

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Thu / 23 November 2023 / 13:40

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated that Israel is close to realizing that it is nowhere near achieving all of the goals it sought after launching its war on Gaza.

Tehran (ISNA) - "Israel did not achieve any of its goals of occupying Gaza and eliminating the Resistance," he said, adding, "What the Zionist regime has done shows that it has grown desperate in the face of the Palestinian resistance."

Raisi further described Operation Al-Aqsa Storm as the Palestinian people's "legitimate defense of their right," prompted by "[Israel's] incessant oppression."

"A nation, whose home is usurped, whose family members are imprisoned and martyred, and whose farms are destroyed, enjoys the right to legitimate self-defense" the president continued.

He noted that the Operation inflicted "military, security, and intelligence defeat" upon the Israeli occupation.

Meanwhile, Raisi addressed the death toll, which has exceeded 13,000, saying that the "killing of women and children does not translate into victory" and "has created an unprecedented atmosphere of anti-Zionist hatred across the world".

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, speaking from the Lebanese capital of Beirut, warned yesterday that failing to comply with the four-day truce would breed consequences.

In an interview, he told Al Mayadeen: "If the truce does not continue, the conditions of the region will change and the scope of the war will expand," saying "We have previously warned that if the war continues, the opening of new fronts is inevitable. The Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, and Yemenis cannot stand by and watch what is happening," the top diplomat said.

In a recent news report, it was stated that Israeli individuals who are to be released under a ceasefire agreement will not be freed before Friday.

The previously announced date for the temporary pause on Gaza has been delayed from Thursday to Friday "at least," Israeli Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said.

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