The top commander of Iran’s Quds Force said that the resistance front supports the Tehran-backed militant group Hamas in its war with Israel in Gaza.
“Your brothers from the Axis of Resistance are united with you. The resistance will not allow the enemy to achieve its dirty goals in Gaza and Palestine,” Esmail Kaani said in a message to commanders of the Tehran-backed group on Thursday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported .
Iran, which refers to its combined armed groups around the Middle East as part of the “Axis of Resistance,” warned Israel of escalation if it failed to end the aggression in the Gaza Strip.
The Quds Force is the arm of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls its allied militias in the region, from Lebanon to Iraq and Yemen to Syria.
Tensions in the region have flared since a deadly attack by Hamas fighters who stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, including childrenaccording to Israeli data.
Iran wants a truce in Gaza and blames the US for delaying it
It denies being behind the Palestinian resistance
In response, Israel launched an air, ground and sea offensive in Gaza, killing more than 11,500 people, about 40% of them children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Hamas-ruled enclave of the Gaza Strip.
2023-11-16 20:49:22
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