Hamas Stresses Regional Nations’ Right of Self-Defense against Israeli Aggression
The movement said in a statement that the Iranian attack was a natural and proper response to the Israeli regime’s strike against the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this month.
Hamas also called on the Muslim and Arab Ummah, the noble people of the world and the region’s resistance groups to continue supporting the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian nation’s right to freedom, independence and establishment of an independent state with al-Quds as its capital.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched “extensive” retaliatory missile and drone strikes against the occupied territories on Saturday.
The Corps announced launching the strikes in a statement on Saturday night, defining the mission as "Operation True Promise."
Opening the statement with verse 22 of Surah As-Sajdah which reads “We will take revenge on the criminal,” IRGC said “In response to the Zionist regime’s numerous crimes, including the attack on the consular section of Iran’s Embassy in Damascus and the martyrdom of a number of our country’s commanders and military advisors in Syria, the IRGC’s Aerospace Division launched tens of missiles and drones against certain targets inside the occupied territories.”
It also closed the statement by quoting verse 126 of Surah Al-Imran: “No victory is real unless it is from God, the Majestic and All-wise.”
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Later in the morning, Iran’s permanent mission to the UN said that the “The matter can be considered as concluded.”
The mission, however, warned that if the Israeli regime perpetrated another mistake, Iran’s subsequent response could be “remarkably more intense.
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