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PA President Abbas: Iran Wants to Sacrifice the Blood of the Palestinians

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia November 23, 2021. Photo: Sputnik/Evgeny Biyatov/Kremlin via REUTERS

The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that Iran wants to “sacrifice the blood of the Palestinians” after Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Khamenei claimed earlier in the day that the massacre by Hamas, a Palestinian terror group supported by Tehran, occurred “just when the region needed it.” He added that there was a plan by “the Americans, the Zionists, of their supporters and of some of the countries in the region to change the equation in the region” — an apparent reference to ongoing, US-brokered efforts to foster a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian leader was speaking at a ceremony marking 35 years since the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), which exercises limited self-governance over the West Bank, took issue with Khamenei’s remarks.

“The Palestinian people have been fighting for 100 years, and they don’t need more wars that don’t serve their interests — freedom and protection of al-Quds and the holy places,” Abbas’s office said, according to Haaretz. The statement added that “we want to end the occupation and implement the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and not a policy that does not serve the interests of the Palestinian people.”

The official WAFA Palestinian news agency quoted Abbas’s office as saying that Khamenei’s comments “clearly declare that their goal is to sacrifice Palestinian blood and thousands of children, women, and the elderly, and to destroy Palestinian land.”

This is not the first time that Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority (PA) is the chief political rival of Hamas, has publicly slammed Iran.

In April, Fatah, the main Palestinian faction in the West Bank and the movement that controls the PA, lambasted Iran for meddling in internal Palestinian affairs, accusing the Iranian regime of spreading chaos in its territory.

“This external interference, particularly by Iran, has no other objective than to sow chaos in the Palestinian internal arena, which will only benefit the Israeli occupation and the enemies of our people,” Fatah said in a statement.

Iran is the main international sponsor of Hamas, providing the Palestinian terrorist group that rules Gaza with arms, funding, and training. The regime in Tehran also supports Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group based in Gaza.

The PA, a rival of Hamas, has sought to publicly distance itself from the terrorist group after attempts at reconciliation. However, PA officials have been regularly rationalizing Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel and in some cases even denying it took place or falsely claiming Israeli forces carried out the onslaught.

Nonetheless, US officials in the Biden administration have reportedly expressed support for a “revitalized” PA, which has long been riddled with allegations of corruption and authoritarianism while governing the Palestinians in the West Bank — to take over Gaza following the Israel-Hamas war.

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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op

DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson

i24 NewsThe Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.

IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.

Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.

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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says

Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS

Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.

Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.

Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.

Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.

Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.

The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.

Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”

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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem

Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.

JNS.org –  An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.

The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.

Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.

Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.

There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”

The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.

He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.

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