[Salon] Lebanon's ceasefire could mark end of Gaza war, says Iran's IRGC

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The National 11/28/24

Lebanon's ceasefire could mark end of Gaza war, says Iran's IRGC

A Palestinian flag among the rubble of a house near Al Qassam Mosque in central Gaza. EPA

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said the ceasefire in Lebanon is a "strategic defeat" for Israel and could pave the way for an end to the war in Gaza too.

IRGC commander Hossein Salami said Hezbollah had thwarted Israel's "evil attempts" in southern Lebanon and described the ceasefire as a "great victory".

"The ceasefire on the Lebanese front is a strategic and humiliating defeat for the Zionist regime, which did not even come close to achieving any of its evil goals, aspirations, and desires in the war against Hezbollah, and could even mark the beginning of a ceasefire and the end of the war in Gaza," he said.