TEHRAN (Agencies): The head of the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC) says it is time for the Israelis to think about leavingPalestine and redeem their homes in Europe and the US.
General Ismail Qa’ani’s remarks at a ceremony in Tehran Saturday on the40th day since the passing away of his deputy Brigadier General MohammadHejazi came in the wake of the recent 11-day Israeli war on Gaza whichmarked an unprecedented show of force by the Palestinian resistance.
“In the first three days of the Palestinian war with the Zionist regime, wefired as many missiles at the occupied territories as the entire 22-daywar. This is the power of the Resistance Front,” General Qa’ani said,referring to the war that began on December 27, 2008. According to thegeneral, “more than 3,000 missiles fired by the resistance into theoccupied territories were produced in the same geographic area” which waspulverized in 2008 under a ferocious Israeli aerial campaign and came to beknown as the Gaza massacre. “From now on, the message of the resistance tothe Palestinian children is that ‘your plans must be for the administrationof the whole of Palestine’, and without a doubt, the Zionist regime mustthink of a time when this land will no longer be under their control,”General Qa’ani said.
“I advise all Zionists to go back and buy your own houses again before thehouses you sold in Europe and America and elsewhere and came to the land ofPal-estine become more expensive than they are today.” Israel launchedairstrikes against Gaza on May 10, after Palestinian retaliation againstviolent raids on worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and plans toforce a number of Palestinian families out of their homes at Sheikh Jar-rahneighborhood of Jerus-alem al-Quds. “The Palesti-nian resistance acted insu-ch a way that from the first day, the Zionist regime be-gged theintermediary cou-ntries to call and press for the Palestinian children tostop the war,” Qa’ani said.
The Palestinian resistance, he said, set preconditions and did not give upuntil dictating all its demands to Israel.
“It might be interesting to you because this is not being said in themedia; the heaviest bullets of the Palestinian resistance were the lastbullets fired at the occupied territories, which is a sign of the power,strength and the correct definition of resistance,” Qa’ani said.
The Quds Force chief also paid tribute to Gen. Hejazi and Iran’s legendarycommander General Qas-sem Soleimani, saying they were key to theunprecedented strengthening of the Palestinian resistance.
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“General Hejazi was one of those who, along with Haj Qassem, put a lot ofenergy into filling the hands of the resistance, and a token of theservices rendered by Martyr Hejazi and Haj Qassem was seen in this fierceresistance of the Palestinians against the Zionist regime,” he said.
“The Eminent Leader [Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei] has said that ‘MartyrSoleimani filled the hands of the children of the resistance’ and we sawhow Gaza is defending the whole land of Palestine despite having been undersanctions for 15 years.”
Gen. Qa’ani said, “Today, all over the world, thanks to martyrs such as HajQassem Soleimani and Martyr Hejazi, everyone believes that resistance isthe answer in every scene.”
“As someone who has been with the children of the resistance and seen andknown their spirit, I must say that gone are the days when the Zionistregime wanted to destroy the Palestinian children with weapons, bullets andguns. Today, these children are producing in the occupied territories allthe vast means which they used in the 12-day war.”
According to the Quds Force chief, “many infrastructural facilities in theoccupied territories were within the range of Palestinian missiles” duringthe recent war, but the resistance groups did not hit them, knowing it willnot take long before they use those facilities.
