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   Beirut 15:30

Settlement Expansion Cannot Hide Israeli Defeats: Qaani

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, Commander of IRGC's Quds Force (image from archive).

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani said the Israeli regime’s expansion of settlements and ongoing crimes in the occupied territories cannot conceal its strategic failures since October 7.

In a message released on Sunday, Qaani described the expansion of Israeli settlements and the regime’s crimes as an attempt to escape its deepening military, security, political and social crisis in the occupied territories.

He stressed that such actions could not hide the Zionist regime’s “strategic defeats” since October 7.

“Palestine is a living and unchanging ideal,” the commander said, expressing confidence that the cause would endure, with God’s help, until “the victory of truth” is achieved.

Source: Tasnim news agency