Iran: Gaza cease-fire result of Palestinians’ resistance
Iran welcomed a cease-fire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling it the result of Palestinians’ resistance against the regime’s aggression.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a post on his X social media account on Thursday commended the sacrifices and valor of Palestinians and their resistance in the face of the months-long Israeli aggression that resulted in the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and forced the regime to back down.
“Today, the world realized that the Palestinian people’s patience and the Palestinian resistance’s resilience have forced the Zionist regime to back down,” the Leader said.
“It will be written in books that one day, a Zionist group massacred thousands of women and children in the most horrific way and at the end, they were quashed.”
The cease-fire, brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the US, was announced by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani late on Wednesday. It consists of three phases and would come into effect on Sunday over a span of 42 days.
The truce deal, which would potentially bring an end to Israel’s devastating genocidal aggression on the territory, stipulates that a large-scale prisoner exchange will occur, including the release of 1,000 prisoners from Gaza and hundreds of detainees serving lengthy sentences.
Negotiators from Egypt, Qatar, the US and Israel met in Cairo Friday to set out “mechanisms” for implementing the truce in Gaza.
During Friday’s talks, negotiators agreed on facilitating the entry of 600 aid trucks per day into the Gaza Strip as per the deal, the source said.
The Israeli security cabinet also approved the cease-fire deal on Friday. Since the announcement of the cease-fire on Wednesday, Israeli strikes have killed over 100 people in Gaza.
Israel launched its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led resistance groups carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Since October, the occupying regime has killed at least 46,707 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 110,265 others, in Gaza.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry also welcomed the deal but called for “the arrest, trial, and punishment” of Israeli leaders for committing “the most serious war crimes” in Gaza.
In a statement on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said the people of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory have suffered “one of the greatest acts of genocide and population displacement in history” since October 2023, when Israel’s war machine began unleashing fire and destruction on the territory.
The cease-fire is also the result of “solidarity and unity of the people of Gaza in their honorable resistance and steadfastness against the forced displacement of Palestinians,” the statement read, hailing the truce “as a historic victory for the Palestinian nation.”