Iran “constantly feeds its proxies – be it Hezbollah in Lebanon or Hamas in the Gaza Strip – with money and weapons to launch attacks against the Israeli population,” the diplomat said during the Yom Hatsmaut commemoration, or the national day, of Israel, in Mexico City.
The ambassador to Mexico said in his speech that the Iranian-backed Islamist forces do not care about the harm they can cause to civilian populations in Beirut or the Gaza Strip, but that this is not surprising given the history of human rights violations. rights of the Iranian government towards its own inhabitants.
“We will not sit idly by while our population is attacked by terrorists,” said the diplomat, in a message that was applauded by the attendees, who were mostly part of the Jewish community in Mexico.
Tal’s statements come as Israel and Palestine experience a new escalation in their confrontations. Islamic Jihad has fired 937 projectiles into Israel—mostly rockets but also mortars—of which 761 crossed into Israeli territory while 181 were misfires that landed inside the Strip.
Air defense systems intercepted 296 of the rockets but one hit a residential building in the city of Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, killing one person and lightly injuring five others.
Although the rocket launches are claimed by the Chamber of Joint Military Operations, which brings together all the armed factions in Gaza – with Hamas and the YIP at the forefront – the Army assures that Hamas, which has governed the Strip since 2007, has only involved in the rhetorical plane, but not in the military.