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A senior Iranian official implicitly endorse a new “intifada” in Israel and called for a unified Islamic response.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Israel’s “systematic infringement of human rights, desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque,” and other assorted “evil acts,” were only possible because the Islamic world is busy infighting.
However, Amir-Abollahian said, despite fighting ISIL and others in Syria and Iraq, Iran and its allies will not allow the issue of Palestine and rights of Palestinians to be marginalized.”
Sunday in Lebanon, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, likewise endorsed the wave of Arab terror attacks targeting Israeli civilians in a speech calling on both the Palestinian people and all Islamic nations to mobilize support for the “Palestinian struggle.”
“The renewed Intifada is the only way to free Palestinians from the occupation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip banded together for a so-called “night of the long knives” after an imam with a butcher knife rallied a large crowd in support of stabbing Israelis.
An Iranian deputy foreign minister said the wave of terrorism in Israel indicates that a new intifada is on the horizon, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
On Oct. 15, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab-African affairs, praised the “resistance of the youth” and condemned what he called Israel’s “systematic infringement of human rights, desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque,” and other assorted “evil acts,” according to a report by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
The “Resistance Axis will not allow the issue of Palestine and rights of Palestinians to be marginalized,” Amir-Abollahian said, adding that Iran would use its “utmost power” to defend “the rights of the oppressed people of Palestine,” and called on the Islamic world to join in Teheran’s efforts.
Video last week of a demonstration at a mosque in the Gazan city of Rafah showed a knife-wielding imam inciting a large crowd with anti-Semitic slurs. In the video, which went viral last week, the imam is heard calling on Muslims to stab Jews and advises them how best to do so.
On Oct. 16, a rally referred to as the “night of long knives” was held on the streets of Rafah, in which a large crowd of locals, many of them waving butcher knives and meat-cleavers, gathered to call for more attacks on Jews.
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