In a message to the conference, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, noted that what makes Gaza the symbol of the resistance is its noble, ground-breaking, and uncompromising efforts to represent the wishes and ambitions of a nation yearning for dignity and victory.
“The number of military officers and soldiers killed by the Palestinian resistance groups during this recent conflict in Gaza is multiple times that of the Israeli casualties in the Six-Day War in 1967,” he said.
The Israeli army, which conquered more than 69,000 square kilometers of Muslim lands during the 1967 war, has suffered so many losses in just a part of the Gaza Strip that forced it to “downplay its retreats as entering the next phase of the war,” Nasrallah highlighted. “So, the conference’s motto was rightly chosen.”
The leader of Hezbollah said Operation Al-Aqsa Storm had manifold impacts: it debunked Israel’s myth of invincibility, neutralized efforts to brush aside the Palestinian cause, and disrupted the normalization route that has always aimed to put restraints on the will of the Palestinians.
The deputy commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) also maintained that the operation tarnished the Zionist regime’s dubious military, intelligence, and economic reputation, which in turn denied the United States its source of hope and dependence in the region.
Attending the event, Mohammad Reza Fallahzadeh stated that the Palestinian resistance will continue the fight with the support of other resistance groups located in the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.
Yemen’s ambassador to Iran warned against losing steam in the religious endeavor to stand up for Gazans, who are under the most brutal attacks by the occupying regime, saying that the enemy is already trying to divide the resistance and “has realized the danger”.
Making the remarks at the 12th Gaza Conference, The Symbol of Resistance, Ebrahim al-Dailami called for all Muslims of the world to do whatever is in their power to help the oppressed Palestinians, as Allah would reprimand them if they didn’t.