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PA slams Khamenei for Oct. 7 comments, says no need to spill Palestinian blood without chance at independence
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A handout picture made available by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him addressing the crowd during a ceremony marking the 35th death anniversary of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at his mausoleum in Tehran on June 3, 2024. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
The Palestinian people do not need wars that do not serve their ambitions for freedom and independence, the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says in response to remarks by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei said the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel had happened exactly at the moment the region needed it and that there had been a plan “by the US, Zionist individuals, their followers and some of the region’s countries to change the equation in the region.”
The Palestinian presidency responds by saying such remarks were clearly aimed at sacrificing Palestinian blood and would not lead to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
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