Ayatollah Khamenei: Palestine's Patience And Resilience Forced Zionists To Resign

Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Wikimedia Commons/Khademei.ir)

JAKARTA - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday, the patience and resistance of the Palestinian people forced the Zionist regime to retreat.

"Today, the world recognizes that the patience of the Palestinian people and the toughness of the Palestinian resistance have forced the Zionist regime to retreat. It will be written in the book that one day, a Zionist group massacred thousands of women and children in the most terrible way and in the end, they were defeated," he said. , January 17th.

Khamenei made the comments after Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Israel were announced to have reached a ceasefire agreement on Wednesday evening local time.

It is known that negotiators reached a gradual agreement on Wednesday to end the war on Gaza between Israel and Hamas after 15 months of conflict since October 7, 2023, fueling tensions in the Middle East. This will take effect on Sunday.

The deal includes the gradual release of hostages arrested by Hamas-led militants, in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.

The deal is also expected to ease tensions in the Middle East sparked by the conflict in Gaza, then ignite the occupied West Bank of Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, raising fears of Israel's war with Iran.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said there would be a "follow-up mechanism" consisting of representatives from the United States, Qatar and Egypt who will headquarter in Cairo, responsible for monitoring the implementation of the hostage release agreement and the ceasefire.

The latest conflict in Gaza broke out on October 15, 2023, when a Palestinian militant group led by Hamas attacked Israel's southern region, leaving 1,200 people dead and 250 others hostage, according to Israeli calculations.

Yesterday, medical authorities in Gaza confirmed that the death toll from Palestine since the conflict broke out has reached 46,788 people and injuries of 110,453 people, the majority of children and women, quoted from WAFA.