Palestinians should plan for managing entire occupied lands

Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has urged the Palestinians to make plans for managing the entire occupied territories and for Israelis to think about leaving those lands.

Brigadier General Esmaeil Qa’ani made the remarks on Saturday during a ceremony marking the 40th day since the passing of his deputy Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi.

He said the time has passed when the Zionist regime tried to kill the Palestinians with weapons because the nation is now producing most of such arms in its homeland.

During the recent Israeli onslaught on Gaza, the Palestinians “acted in such a powerful way that the Zionist regime begged its allies to tell the Palestinian children to stop the war,” he added.

Tel Aviv launched the bombing campaign against Gaza on May 10, after Palestinian retaliation against violent raids on worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the regime’s plans to force a number of Palestinian families out of their homes at Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of al-Quds.

Apparently caught off guard by unprecedented rocket barrages from Gaza, Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire on May 21, which Palestinian resistance groups accepted with Egyptian mediation.

"The 3,000 missiles fired by the Palestinians into the occupied territories were produced in this geography," Qa’ani said.

“During the first three days of the [latest] Gaza war, the oppressed people of Palestine, who are subject to sanctions and siege, fired missiles into the occupied territories almost twice the number of rockets launched during the 22-war,” in 2008-2009.