Islamic Jihad to Israel: Await our next response to IRGC advisor’s assassination

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has strongly condemned Israel’s assassination of a senior Iranian military advisor in Syria, saying the occupying regime should await a decisive response to its cowardly act.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Islamic Jihad said Brigadier General Seyyed Razi Mousavi, a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), played a pivotal role in supporting regional resistance forces as well as the Palestinian nation, resistance and cause.

“The occupying regime’s dirty assassination operation proves once again that this criminal regime contaminates the entire region and its only job is to shed the blood [of people] and spread murder and crimes,” it added.

“We reiterate that the crimes of the occupying Zionist regime and its encroachment on regional stability and security will lead to its defeat at the hands of resistance forces.”

Mousavi was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood on Monday. He was a comrade of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.