❗️Statement by Hamas's military wing, the Qassam Brigades:
"The Zionist enemy continues its recklessness and brutality in our region, heedless of anyone, emboldened by the United States—the primary sponsor of its crimes and aggression against Palestine and Arab and Islamic countries.
In a new chapter of this rampage, the Islamic Republic of Iran is being subjected to criminal Zionist-American aggression, as an extension of the genocidal campaign carried out by the Zionist enemy in Gaza, and the aggression over the past two years against Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Qatar, and other countries.
We, in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in light of this criminal aggression against Iran and its people, affirm the following:
First: We declare our full solidarity with the Islamic Republic and its noble people in the face of this aggression, which we have repeatedly affirmed is driven primarily by its support for Palestine and its resistance, and its clear and explicit stance against the Zionists and their allies. We mourn their martyrs, ask God to grant healing to their wounded, and pray that He protects Iran and its people from all harm.
Second: We commend the Iranian response to the Zionist-American aggression within the framework of Operation True Promise 4, and express our full confidence in the Iranian Armed Forces and the heroic Revolutionary Guard, in their determination to confront the aggression and their ability to inflict heavy losses on the aggressors and teach them deterrent lessons that will restrain them. This fragile enemy, which failed for two full years to break the will of the people of Gaza and its resistance, will meet disappointment and, God willing, will be unable to subjugate the Islamic Republic and its great people.
Third: This Nazi aggression is an assault on our entire Islamic nation and a violation of its sovereignty and dignity. We call upon the peoples of the nation to stand with the brotherly Iranian people and to mobilize in anger against Zionist and American policy. Today, Iran forms an advanced line of defense for the nation; if the enemy succeeds in breaking the nation’s defensive lines, then all should await their turn. In their eyes, we are all enemies, and the dream of Greater Israel is not far from you.
Fourth: The Zionists and their allies intended for their ongoing aggression since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to be revenge against everyone who supported Palestine and its resistance, and a deterrent to anyone considering participating in the duty of supporting Palestine in any form. But their magic will turn against them, with God’s help. The battle of the nation against the Zionists will continue until their removal from Palestine, and perhaps this Zionist arrogance will unleash waves of backlash from the “Flood” that will bring this temporary entity closer to its inevitable end.
It is jihad of victory or martyrdom."
