Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the United States (US) and Israel have failed to eradicate the Palestinian Hamas resistance group and lost their war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
He said the current humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was the result of the failure of Washington and Tel Aviv to eliminate Hamas through the war.
“Today, we see that the US and Israel are not capable of destroying Hamas in Gaza. Hamas is a liberation and legitimate movement and will remain in Palestine,” he said in an interview with Lebanon's al-Mayadeen TV channel published on Wednesday, reports Press TV.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, “The winners of the war are the Palestinian nation and resistance. So far, the United States and the Zionist regime have been the main losers of this war.”
“The US must choose between the continuations of this situation as well as the region's separation from the war, and the continuation of a worse situation,” he pointed out.
The foreign minister also emphasized that the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza has provided a political opportunity for the region to stay away from the war.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Since the start of the aggression, the Tel Aviv regime has killed over 15,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and left vast swathes of the coastal enclave in ruins.
An additional 7,000 Palestinians are missing and believed to be under the rubble in Gaza, home to more than two million Palestinians who are being subjected to a “complete siege” imposed by Israel.
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