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“Islamic Jihad chief: Gen. Soleimani was champion on battlefield; Palestine was his main concern,” Iran’s state-controlled Press TV, January 6, 2023:
The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has hailed the late top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani as an undisputed champion in various spheres of the resistance front, stressing that the Palestinian issue was his main area of concern.
Ziyad al-Nakhalah made the remarks at a Thursday ceremony in commemoration of the two legendary commander in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, where Iranian ambassador Mojtaba Amani, Lebanese and Palestinian resistance leaders, and a number of political and religious dignitaries were in attendance.
Nakhalah said General Soleimani once referred to him as “a dear brother and an inspiring leader,” stressing that the former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had “intense relationship with all Palestinian resistance groups and was in close contact with us, no matter whether we were active in the occupied territories or in the diaspora.”
The Islamic Jihad chief underscored that General Soleimani evolved from a national figure into an internationally distinguished personality turning the impossible into the possible.
“He was primarily concerned with the Palestinian issue, strongly in unity within the Muslim world, and viewed Palestine and liberation of the occupied holy city of al-Quds as a gateway to such unanimity,” Nakhalah pointed out.
“General Soleimani made great efforts to fortify and expand the Axis of Resistance,” he said, describing the launch of relentless barrages of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israeli communities, including Tel Aviv, in response to Israel’s 11-day military onslaught against the besieged coastal enclave in May 2021 as an obvious manifestation of such a fact….
Both commanders were highly revered across the Middle East because of their key role in fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria….
ElderlyZionist says
“Why are Iranian officials so continuously concerned with Israel? Why does Israel bother them so?”
The Persian Shia schismatics beat the anti-Zionist drum to claim leadership of the Arabs.
James Lincoln says
ElderlyZionist says,
“Why are Iranian officials so continuously concerned with Israel? Why does Israel bother them so?”
The Iranian officials want their citizens to hate Israel / Jews – and not them.
OldWolf says
There is only one reason Iran and other Islamic Republics are interested in the lie that is Palestine, the destruction of Israel as their Qur’an and Imams. The Islamic hate for Jews goes back to Mohammad being run out of Mecca prior to his “dream” in the cave and his inventing Islam.