Iraqi resistance warns US: "do not help Israel in the carnage of Gaza"
Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah movement has threatened to target American bases in Iraq and across the region if the United States intervenes in the ongoing war between Palestinian Hamas fighters and the occupying regime of Israel. "Our missiles, drones and special forces are ready to... strike US bases, seriously endangering their interests if the latter intervenes in this battle," the secretary general of Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, Abu Hussein, said on Tuesday. Al-Hamidawi. Positions held by the Israeli regime and its mercenaries will also be among Kata'ib Hezbollah's targets in the event of US interference, he added. The warning came on the same day that US President Joe Biden's administration announced that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford had reached the eastern Mediterranean. Hamidawi stressed that Iraqi Hezbollah has a duty to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, citing religious commandments.
He also praised the resilience of the Palestinian nation and resistance groups against Israeli forces. The head of Iraqi resistance group Harakat Hezbollah Nujaba said on Monday that any intervention by the United States or any other country against Palestine would result in a military response. Akram al-Kaabi also called on the Iraqi people to participate in Friday's demonstration in a show of support for the Palestinian cause. Similarly, Hadi al-Amiri, secretary general of the Badr Organization, said: “If they (the Americans) intervene, we will intervene… we will consider all American objectives legitimate.”The secretary general of Hezbollah's Iraqi battalions has warned that if the United States intervenes in the Palestinian conflict, the country's bases will be attacked by the movement's rockets. According to the Shafaq news agency, speaking about helping Palestinian fighters, Abu Hossein al-Hamidawi said: "The obligation of Sharia requires us to be present on the ground to repel the evil of the enemies of the Islamic nation and the inhabitants of Gaza and other occupied territories."
Al-Hamidawi also warned America: "If America intervenes in this war, our missiles, drones and special forces will be ready to attack American bases and jeopardize its interests." The Secretary General of the Hezbollah battalions emphasized: “If the United States intervenes, we will strike at the positions of the Zionist regime and its mercenaries.” Earlier, Akram Al-Kaabi, Secretary General of the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement Al-Nujaba, once again supported the struggle of the Palestinian people against the Zionist regime and said: “We ask all our brothers and loved ones to take part in the million-strong demonstration on Friday, holding in their hands flags of Iraq and Palestine." He noted that if the Zionist regime expands the scope of the war, drones and resistance missiles will also show their strength, and warned: “Any intervention by the United States or any other country against the Palestinian people will be met with a decisive military response.”
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