Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned US president Donald Trump’s proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt and Jordan.
Khamenei said that the Gaza ceasefire agreement was a defeat for Israel [Getty]
Iran‘s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that Gaza had brought Israel “to its knees”, in a reference to the recent ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.
The ceasefire and prisoner-exchange deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect just over a week ago, aiming to put an end to more than 15 months of war.
“The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth, and fully supported by America, to its knees,” Khamenei said during a meeting with officials in Tehran.
Also on Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaei, criticised US President Donald Trump’s idea to expel Palestinians from Gaza to other countries such as Egypt and Jordan.
“Political coercion and demographic manipulations will not be able to force the Palestinians to migrate,” Baqaei said in a post on X, adding that Gaza is the Palestinians’ “homeland and they’ve paid [an] extremely high price to remain there”.
Israel’s brutal 15-month assault on Gaza has killed 47,300 Palestinians, the majority civilians, and reduced much of the enclave to rubble.