IRGC Lieutenant Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami said given the biased ceasefire plan proposed by Egypt, continued resistance and war against Israel is now the best possible option for the Palestinians, adding that Hamas enjoys hidden war equipment and capabilities which will be used in later stages of the war.
“The plan proposed by Egypt meets the Zionist regime’s interests and is not acceptable as it seeks to disarm the resistance, but we know that the damage inflicted on the Palestinians by a ceasefire is more than war,” Salami said in a live interview with Iran’s state-run TV on Saturday night.
Stressing that the Zionist regime has been defeated in close-range and street war against Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups, he said the Zionist army cannot move on the ground no matter Palestinian tunnels are there or not.
“Their fighter jets can just bomb the Palestinians, and these bombardments are responded by the resistance’s missile attacks,” he added.
He also referred to the Israeli “iron dome” missile shield built to intercept and destroy the Palestinian missiles, and said the shield has proved efficient in only 20% of cases.
Salami underlined that the resistance missiles now have a range of 160km which means that the entire occupied territories can be covered by the resistance missiles and the Zionist regime is not able to stand against the flood of Palestinian missiles.
The Iranian commander said that the Zionist regime has misused the Muslim world’s negligence and attacked Gaza in a bid to clear the world public opinion of its previous failures against the Palestinians.