After Four-Day Truce Declared in Gaza War,

Iranian FM: Resistance’s Finger to Remain on Trigger

Date: 22 November 2023 - 21:51

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said here Wednesday six weeks of heroic resistance of the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza proved that time is not on Israel’s side if the war drags on, stressing that the global public opinion would see the occupying regime and the U.S. as the main losers.
Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks upon his arrival here, where he was expected to discuss the recent developments in the region, including the Zionist regime’s war on the Gaza Strip, with Lebanese authorities.
“Without a doubt, the future of Gaza and the future of Palestine will be decided only by the Palestinian people,” the top Iranian diplomat said.
“We have heard from the resistance leaders in the region that the finger of the resistance will remain on the trigger until the Palestinian people’s rights are fully restored and their fight has achieved its goals,” he added.
Amir-Abdollahian said he was in Beirut “to consult with high Lebanese authorities about how to maximize security in the region and how to restore Palestinian rights”.
His remarks came hours after Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced that it had agreed to a four-day truce with Israel.
Hamas said in a statement that the deal, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, will allow the entry of hundreds of humanitarian, medical and fuel aid trucks to Gaza.
The deal will also see the release of 50 Israeli war prisoners in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children from the occupying entity’s jails.
David Barnea, head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, arrived in Qatar to meet Qatar’s Prime Minister Muhammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, to discuss details of the deal.
According to the U.S. news outlet Axios, there are still details of the agreement to be ironed out, including when the ceasefire should start and the sequencing of the release of captives held by Israel and Hamas.
Hezbollah will adhere to the truce called between Israel and Hamas, a source from the organization told Al-Jazeera on Wednesday.
“Hezbollah will adhere to the truce announced if the Israeli occupation forces adhere to it,” the source told the outlet.
Residents will get a respite from the Israeli genocide, which has seen the number of Palestinians martyred cross 14,000, including at least 5,840 children.
Before the ceasefire, one of the last operating hospitals in Gaza received more than 60 dead bodies overnight Wednesday.
The director of Kamal Adwan hospital, Ahmed al-Kahlout, told Al Jazeera that the hospital did not have a “single drop of fuel” and staff worked using handheld searchlights.
“A lot of buildings have been badly affected. We need to keep in mind this hospital is now the only one operating hospital from Wadi Gaza till northern Gaza,” he said.
Meanwhile, the bodies of Palestinians previously held at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by Zionist forces were finally buried in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Oxfam welcomed the news of a truce but warned that it is only a “band aid” that will not resolve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
Oxfam GB’s head of policy and advocacy, Katy Chakrabortty, said she hoped that the agreement could be the beginning of “a road toward a permanent ceasefire” but said that currently looked “distant”.
“This pause of the relentless

bombing and destruction that is causing such suffering to more than two million Palestinians is a welcome respite for the delivery of some humanitarian aid – but no more than that,” she said in a statement.

“The next four days will be eaten up by a desperate emergency effort that can offer only very limited relief, not equal to the size of suffering and destruction and ultimately with no sustainability. This is a band-aid that will be ripped off a bleeding wound after four days.”

A former Israeli interior minister said that the “solution” for the situation in the Gaza Strip is for two million people to be removed from the enclave.

Speaking to Israeli TV, Ayalet Shaked said that other countries should be told to absorb refugees from Gaza.

“We need to take advantage of the destruction [to tell] the countries that each of them should take a quota, it can be 20,000 or 50,000,” she told Channel 13. “We need two million to leave. That’s the solution for Gaza.”

Meanwhile, Sweden’s prime minister faced ridicule after appearing to just stop himself saying “Israel has the right to genocide” during a speech.

Ulf Kristersson was speaking to an audience in Gothenburg on Tuesday when he addressed the subject of Sweden’s attitude to the war in Gaza.

“Sweden and the EU stand united in that Israel has a right to geno...self-defense,” he said.

A number of audience members laughed at his mistake, while others started calling out “Has Israel the right to commit genocide?”