IRAN TO SUPPORT PALESTINE WITH ALL MIGHT: OFFICIAL

Gazans inspect the rubble of their building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on July 13, 2014.

An Iranian official has slammed the Tel Aviv regime’s fatal airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, saying the Islamic Republic will help the Palestinian nation with “all might”

On Monday, Iran’s Majlis Director General for International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam reaffirmed the country’s stance on the Palestinian cause and said the Islamic Republic will make all the efforts to serve the Palestinian nation despite all the issues.

Sheikholeslam further pointed to the Israel airstrikes on Gaza, saying the Israeli military targets civilians, including women and children, and destroys homes and mosques in an attempt to pile mental pressure on the resistance movement in the blockaded coastal enclave.

Israeli aerial assaults focus on destroying the capabilities of the resistance movement in the Gaza Strip, but the Palestinians will not buckle under such pressure, he added.

Nearly 190 Palestinians have so far been killed and some 1,300 others injured since Israeli warplanes began a fresh wave of airstrikes on Gaza on July 8. The UN says nearly 80 percent of the casualties have been civilians.

In response to Israel’s fatal attacks on Gaza, Palestinian resistance fighters have fired a barrage of rockets deep into Israeli cities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Tel Aviv will not stop its attacks on the Palestinian territory.

Source : PRESSTV

DEATH TOLL FROM ISRAELI ATTACKS ON GAZA HITS 107

The death toll from a relentless Israeli offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip has increased to at least 107.

Medical sources reported several casualties from an Israeli missile attack on a house in southern Gaza on Friday while Israeli warplanes pounded Deir al-Balah, leaving a number of people dead in the central city.

Earlier, three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in the coastal enclave.

Israeli warplanes and drones have reportedly pounded more than 600 targets across the blockaded sliver since Tuesday, with Palestinian sources saying one third of the casualties are women and children.

Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Osama Hamdan, the head of the international relations committee of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, told Press TV on Thursday that the movement is ready to hit back at Israeli forces should Tel Aviv launch a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.

“Israelis are trying to heat up the situation in order to start a ground operation, which will not be an easy issue for the Israelis and also for the resistance. But we are ready to face that,” he underlined.

Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip have already been responding to Israel’s aggression by targeting towns and cities deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

Source: PRESSTV