Iran's President Raisi delivers an unprecedented speech to an annual pro-Palestine rally in besieged Gaza, urging Palestinians to press on with their anti-occupation struggle against Israel
Iran's president has delivered an unprecedented speech to an annual pro-Palestine rally in the besieged Gaza — a rare display of Tehran importance to the Hamas which governs the Palestinian coastal enclave.
"The initiative to self-determination is today in the hands of the Palestinian fighters," Raisi said, dismissing the Palestinian Authority that rules parts of the occupied West Bank not controlled by Israel. Palestinians listen to Hamas leader Yehiyeh Sinwar as he participates at a Gaza rally to mark"Jerusalem Day" During the ceremony, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yehiyeh Sinwar, celebrated that fighters in southern Lebanon, Gaza and Syria had fired rockets into Israeli territory, describing the attacks as a response to the police raid on the Al Aqsa Mosque — the third-holiest site in Islam.
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