Israel failed to sell misguided notion of victory over Resistance as Hamas 'alive': Iran Parl. speaker

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf felicitates Hamas and other resistance forces across the region on their victory over Israel, stressing that the occupying Zionist regime failed in its attempts to sell the notion it had overcome the Axis of Resistance.

Addressing an open parliamentary session in the capital Tehran on Monday, Qalibaf pointed to the Israeli regime’s defeat in cognitive warfare against resistance fighters, and its bids to propagate the idea that occupation forces had emerged triumphant in Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

“It has become obvious today that Hamas is alive and flourishing. Resistance is going on with a determination much stronger than before, and is humiliating the enemy,” the top Iranian parliamentarian emphasized.

He stated that the Palestinian nation’s resilience in the face of over 15 months of Israeli genocidal war and atrocities will be completed following total withdrawal of Zionists from the Gaza Strip and the return of displaced people to their homes.

Qalibaf also paid tribute to the late head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, secretary-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah's Executive Council Hashem Safieddine, and all those who scarified their lives in the sacred battle against the Zionist regime as the most vicious enemy of humanity.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians on Monday began to return to their homes in the northern side of the battered Gaza Strip after 15 months of being forcibly displaced. 

For days, they had sat out in the streets or on a beach with their mattresses, belongings, and water tanks, waiting for the checkpoint to open under the terms of a deal reached between Hamas and Israel over exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas hails historic return of Palestinians to north Gaza; Israel’s Ben-Gvir fumes at ‘defeat’

Displaced Palestinians begin returning to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Gazans describe the return as historic, saying this is a victorious day.

The displaced Palestinians had been stranded behind Israeli military barriers despite the ceasefire.

Far-right former Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir described Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza as a victory for Hamas.

“The opening of the Netzarim highway this morning and the entry of tens of thousands of Gazans into the northern Gaza Strip are images of Hamas’ victory and another humiliating part of the reckless deal. This is not what ‘complete victory’ looks like – this is what complete surrender looks like,” he wrote on X.

The Israeli soldiers did not fight and give their lives in the Gaza Strip to make these photos possible, he said, adding, “We must return to war – and destroy!”

Ben-Gvir resigned from his post earlier this month in protest at the Gaza ceasefire deal. He has long been opposed to cessation of the brutal Israeli military onslaught and called for the regime to “occupy” Gaza.

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