From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Khamenei: ‘No one can stop resistance forces’ if Israel continues retaliatory Gaza bombardment
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that “no one can stop resistance forces” if Israel keeps up its retaliatory bombardment of Gaza in response to the vicious October 7 attack by the Hamas terror group, which rules the Strip.
Israel has declared its intention to eradicate Hamas.
“If the crimes of the Zionist (Israeli) regime continue, Muslims and resistance forces will become impatient, and no one can stop them,” Khamenei says.
Iran has been in close contact with its regional allies, including Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and pro-Tehran Iraqi militias, since Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas attacked Israel, breaking through the heavily fortified border from Gaza and killing more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians.
Gazan terrorists also kidnapped some 200-250 hostages, including babies, children and the elderly.
Israel has responded with a devastating air and artillery bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza that has killed at least 2,750 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to the health ministry controlled by the terror group. The figure could not be independently verified.
“No matter what the Zionist regime does, it cannot make up for the scandalous failure it suffered,” Khamenei says.
