18 October 2014
A.D. TEHRAN:
“Reprobate Jihadists” Praise “Supreme Reprobate” Ayatollah Ali Khamennei
in Terror War
Islamic
Jihad praises Iran for role in Gaza war
Supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promises to ‘reinforce their resources’ before
another round of fighting
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit:
AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)
AFP. “Islamic Jihad praises Iran for role in Gaza
war: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promises to ‘reinforce their resources’
before another round of fighting.” Times
of Israel. 16 Oct 2014. http://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-jihad-praises-iran-for-role-in-gaza-war/#ixzz3GNU8FbdS. Accessed 17 Oct 2014.
TEHRAN — The head of Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad
praised Iran for its role in last summer’s Gaza conflict against Israel, during
a visit to Tehran on Thursday.
“Definitely, the victory was achieved with the assistance of the
Islamic republic,” Ramadan Abdullah Shallah said at a meeting with Iran’s
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to the semi-official Fars
news agency.
“Without Iran’s strategic and efficient help, resistance and
victory in Gaza would have been impossible,” he said of the 50-day war.
Iran, an arch-foe of Israel, provides the technology for
Palestinian fighters of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, a larger Islamist movement
which controls the Gaza Strip, to fire missiles at towns in the Jewish state.
Khamenei, also quoted by Fars, urged the militants to “boost their
preparedness day by day and reinforce their resources” ahead of any further
Israeli assault on the territory.
The Islamic Jihad leader was skeptical of the $5.4 billion in
international aid to rebuild Gaza that was pledged at a donor conference in
Cairo last Sunday.
“We do not pin much hope on such promises and only rely on God to
compensate losses inflicted on us by the Zionist regime,” said Shallah,
referring to Israel which launched its July-August assault on Gaza with the
declared aim of halting rocket fire on its towns.
Over 2,100 people were killed during the fighting in Gaza,
according to Palestinian and and UN tallies, and 72 people killed in Israel.
Israel says half of the dead were Hamas and other gunmen.
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