Egypt Agrees with Iranian Delegation’s Visit to Gaza

Rapporteur of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Tuesday that Egypt has voiced its initial agreement with a visit to the Gaza Strip by Iranian parliamentarians and the Iranian foreign ministry is taking the required steps to receive visa for the lawmakers.

“The Egyptian government has given its primary consent and the Iranian foreign ministry is after receiving entry visas and receiving the needed permissions,” Naqavi Hosseini told FNA on Tuesday.

A high-ranking delegation from the Iranian parliament has decided to travel to Gaza to visit the areas attacked by the Zionist regime.

Members of the (parliament’s) National Security (and Foreign Policy) Commission along with a number of injured people (during the Iraqi-imposed war against Iran 1980-1988) and war veterans will travel to Gaza and (Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) Alaeddin Boroujerdi will preside the delegation,” Vice-Chairman of the Commission Mansour Haqiqatpour told FNA mid November.

“The trip will be taken to sympathize with the Gaza people and voice support for their resistance,” he said at that time.

Haqiqatpour didn’t announce any exact time for the trip.

His remarks came after hundreds of thousands of Iranians all across the country staged demonstrations mid November to protest against Israel’s attacks on the oppressed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Israel triggered an 8-day fighting by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas group on November 14 followed by dozens of airstrikes on Gaza.

In response, Palestinian groups fired over 1,500 missiles and rockets at Israel.

Palestinian resistance groups targeted Tel Aviv and areas near Jerusalem for the first time in the history of confrontations between the two sides, 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.

But the attack on the Israeli settlement, along with an earlier strike on Zionists’ capital Tel Aviv, frightened the Israeli regime, making it drop its aggression plans and ask for third party mediation.

Eventually, a Cairo-mediated ceasefire agreement, which took effect on Wednesday November 21, ended the Israeli attacks, which killed more than 165 Palestinians and injured about 1,269 others.