Iranian Lawmakers: Israel Should Wait for Another Defeat in Gaza

Iranian Parliament's Rahrovan-e Velayat (Followers of Religious Leadership) Fraction in a statement on Saturday said that if the Zionist regime continues its crimes against the Palestinian nation in Gaza, it will encounter a new defeat similar to the ones it experienced in its 33-day war against Lebanon in 2006 and the 22-day war on Gaza in 2007.

Meantime, the Iranian parliament's fraction condemned the US and some "reactionary Arab leaders" for complicity in the Zionists' crimes against the defenseless Palestinians.

Israel triggered the current fighting by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas group on Wednesday followed by dozens of airstrikes on Gaza.

In response, Palestinian groups fired over 800 missiles and rockets at Israel. Four Israelis have been killed and about 90 others wounded in the last four days since Israel initiated the attacks.

Palestinian resistance groups targeted a settlement near Jerusalem for the first time Friday, launching a rocket attack in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with relentless airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

Israel called up thousands of reservists and massed troops along the border with Gaza, signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip could be imminent. The attack on the Israeli settlement, along with an earlier strike on Zionists' capital Tel Aviv, has frightened the Israeli regime.

Today, a senior Palestinian leader warned the Zionist regime against launching a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, saying that the coastal enclave would became a graveyard for Israeli soldiers otherwise.

"If the Zionist regime decides to extend its aggressions to ground assaults, Gaza will turn into a graveyard for Israelis," Lebanese satellite television Al-Manar quoted a member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Mushir Al-Masri as saying.

"The resistance is fully prepared to confront Israel and our clashes are intensifying," he said.

Different Palestinian resistance groups have vowed to retaliate against Israel's intensifying attacks on Gaza with a devastating response.