Teheran –
Revolutionary Guard Iran claiming a deadly attack Hamas to Israel on October 7 in retaliation for the killing of the former commander of the Quds Force Qassem Soleimani. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s claim was quickly denied by Hamas, its ally.
As reported Al ArabiyaThursday (28/12/2023), this claim was conveyed by a spokesperson Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Ramezan Sharif, when speaking to journalists on Wednesday (27/12) local time. He used the term “Al-Aqsa Flood” to refer to the Hamas attack on Israel in early October.
“The Al-Aqsa flood is an act of revenge for the killing of General Soleimani by the United States and Israel,” stressed Sharif when speaking to local journalists, as quoted by the news agency. ISNA.
“Of course, this act of revenge will continue at different times and places,” he said.
Hamas Denies
Hamas quickly denied Sharif’s claims. Hamas stressed that all its actions were “a response to the presence of the occupation and its ongoing aggression against our people and our sanctity”.
Fars news agency, which is close to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, later reported that Sharif’s remarks had been misunderstood. Fars quoted Sharif as asserting that: “The Al-Aqsa flood was completely a Palestinian operation.”
Sharif’s statement came ahead of the fourth anniversary of the death of Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq in January 2020.
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2023-12-28 02:29:57
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