Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri has said that the Zionists respond to the irreparable failure of Al-Aqsa Storm Operation with crime, while the operation of the Palestinian fighters is full of value and confidence.

Addressing the National Passive Defense Conference on Monday, Bagheri said that the Zionists' crimes in Palestine are a big incident that once again showed that Palestine is the most important issue in the Islamic world and the importance of this issue should never be diminished.

The Palestinian nation lost its land after a great crime 75 years ago and has been fighting to be liberated from this prison for more than seven decades, he added.

Al-Aqsa Storm Operation is the result of the accumulation of oppression and pressure by the Zionists and the criminal US as the main supporter of the Palestinians, اhe said, adding that attributing this operation to outside Palestine was a cover for this big failure.

On October 7, the Palestinian fighters launched a surprise operation, dubbed Al-Aqsa Storm, outside Gaza after Israeli settlers repeatedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days and a record number of Palestinians were killed by Israel in recent months.

The Zionist regime responded by pounding the besieged Gaza Strip after formally declaring war against the Palestinian Hamas group.

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