Member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kosari noted on Monday that the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are planning to weaken the anti-Israel resistance chain in Palestine to make up for their failure in Syria.
Kosari stated that these countries have failed to achieve their goals in both Syria and Palestine and enemies of resistance, especially Israel, will surely suffer a heavier defeat than what they suffered in 22-day war on Gaza (in the winter of 2008-2009).
Israel triggered the current fighting by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas group on Wednesday followed by dozens of airstrikes on Gaza.
Ahmed al-Ja'abari, the popular and influential head of the Hamas military wing, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was assassinated in an Israeli attack on his car on Wednesday.
On Friday, Ahmed Abu Jalal, a field commander of the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was also killed in an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza district of Maghazi.
Over 112 people have been killed and more than 900 others injured in the new wave of Israeli attacks.
At least 25 Palestinian children have been killed thus far and over 225 injured in Israeli airstrikes since Wednesday, according to the UN.
The UN special body for the protection of children has called for an immediate end to the bloodshed. "I call on all parties to immediately stop the violence and to fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect girls and boys from the fighting," said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms Leila Zerrougui.
In response, Palestinian groups fired over 1,200 missiles and rockets at Israel.
Palestinian resistance groups targeted a settlement near Jerusalem for the first time Friday, launching a rocket attack in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with relentless airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
Israel called up thousands of reservists and massed troops along the border with Gaza, signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip could be imminent. The attack on the Israeli settlement, along with an earlier strike on Zionists' capital Tel Aviv, has frightened the Israeli regime.
Also a senior Palestinian leader warned on Saturday the Zionist regime against launching a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, saying that the coastal enclave would became a graveyard for Israeli soldiers otherwise.
"If the Zionist regime decides to extend its aggressions to ground assaults, Gaza will turn into a graveyard for Israelis," Lebanese satellite television Al-Manar quoted a member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Mushir Al-Masri as saying.
"The resistance is fully prepared to confront Israel and our clashes are intensifying," he said.
Different Palestinian resistance groups have vowed to retaliate against Israel's intensifying attacks on Gaza with a devastating response.
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A senior Iranian lawmaker said that the US and its regional allies are trying to cut the chain of Palestinian resistance against Zionists in a bid to cover the West's failure in toppling the Syrian government.
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