Iran’s foreign ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli assassination of Ezzedine Al-Haddad, head of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades in Gaza, saying Israel is pursuing a “colonial eradication” of Palestine, IRNA reports.
In a statement, the ministry denounced the “terrorist act” carried out by the “brutal Zionist regime” in killing Haddad, along with his wife and child.
The assassination and similar attacks formed “part of Israel’s criminal scheme for the colonial eradication of Palestine,” the statement said, adding that the US, as “the largest military, financial, and political supporter of the Zionist apartheid regime”, was “complicit in each and every one of these crimes”.
The foreign ministry also said the “cowardly assassination” of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals reflected the “desperation and helplessness” of a regime that, despite committing “the most horrific crimes” and killing “hundreds of thousands of innocent people” over the past eight decades, had failed to extinguish the spirit of resistance among Palestinians.
