Palestinians Serious about Materializing Leader’s Fiat for Arming West Bank

(FNA)- Palestinian Ambassador to Tehran Salah al-Zawawi underlined his countrymen's enthusiasm for the materialization of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's order for arming the West Bank for intensified fight against the Zionist regime.

"I would like to stress that the remarks of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution need to be materialized," Zawawi said on Tuesday.

He said all the Palestinians wish for equipping their lands with weapons in a bid to be able to free the occupied territories from the hands of the Zionist regime, and stressed that "arming the West Bank is of high priority".

Zawawi said the Zionist regime is well aware that the countdown has started for its annihilation, and added, "The Zionist regime is an aggressor and a cancerous tumor which should be annihilated sooner or later."

His remarks came after Ayatollah Khamenei strongly condemned Israel's recent 51-day war on Gaza, and underlined that Palestinians, including those in the West Bank, should continue their armed struggle against Tel Aviv.

"We believe the West Bank, too, should be armed just like Gaza and those who are interested in the fate of the Palestinians must work in this respect so that the pains and miseries of the Palestinian people will be decreased due to their mighty hands and the weakness of the Zionist enemy," he underlined in July.

After the Leader's order, other Iranian officials also underscored the necessity for arming the Palestinians in the West Bank, saying that the move would lead to Israel's collapse.

"The continued war in Gaza will accelerate arming the West Bank and annihilation of the occupiers," Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri said in Tehran in August.

"The holy Quds occupiers' fear from arming the people and the resistance movement in the West Bank shows how deeply Tel Aviv is vulnerable to the start of a new phase of (Palestinians') fight and resistance," he added.

Jazzayeri said during the past decade and after the Zionist regime's defeats in the 33-day, 8-day and 22-day wars in Lebanon and Gaza and the recent war against the Palestinians, the world public opinion has become aware of this bitter reality that the usurper Israeli regime is a cancerous tumor.