News - Middle East: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei says the Palestinian people will triumph and Israel will be eradicated, hailing the people of Gaza and its fighters for standing "like a rock" in the face of an unprecedented brutal war. 

“With God's help, the righteous front will undoubtedly win and the usurping Zionist regime will be eradicated, and we hope that you, the youth, will see this certain future with your own eyes,” he said in Tehran on Saturday during a meeting with a group of visitors from Kerman and Khuzestan provinces. 
He touched on the events of the besieged Gaza Strip during the past two and a half months, describing them “a unique and extraordinary phenomenon in the recent history of the Islamic world, the like of which we haven’t had in recent history and perhaps in the last century”.
“This incident is unique from two sides. From the side of the Zionist regime, it is unique because this kind of brutality, criminality and bloodlust has never been seen in the period I mentioned," Ayatollah Khamenei.
“This kind of child killing, with bunker-busting bombs thrown over patients in hospitals, this kind of cruelty and wickedness is unprecedented,” he said.
“On the other side - the side of the Palestinian people and Palestinian fighters, this kind of standing, patience, resistance, and driving the enemy crazy has never been seen,"  Sayyed Khamenei added.
Ayatollah Khamenei said, “The people of Gaza, the fighters of Gaza stood like a rock, like a mountain. It is an important thing. Without water, food, medicine and fuel, they stood and didn't give up. It is very important.” 
“Not giving up makes them victorious, even though the signs of victory can be seen today,” Ayatollah Khamenei added, citing the Holy Qur’an which says “Truly, Allah is with those who are patient.”
Israel, Sayyed Khamenei said, “with all the equipment and all the facilities, remains powerless against the Palestinian fighters, whose equipment is almost incomparable to the equipment of the Zionist regime”.
"The failure of the Zionist regime in this incident is also the failure of the United States, and today no one in the world makes a difference between the occupying regime and America and England, and everyone knows that they are one and the same."
Sayyed Khamenei said the US veto of several resolutions of the UN Security Council for a ceasefire and the cessation of bombings in Gaza was “a shameless act” and “complicity with the Zionist regime to drop bombs on children, women, old men, the sick and other defenseless people”.
“The great victory of the Palestinian nation and the Front of Righteous and Resistance is that it discredited the West and America and expose the nature of all their false human rights claims, since Israel was not able to commit so many crimes without the support of America.
“And today the ugly face of the hideous monsters America and England has been revealed to all the people of the world, and the nature of the White House has been exposed and the inner self of the governments of American and England has been revealed.”
Sayyed Khamenei said governments and nations have a duty to help the resistance in any way possible. “Helping the resistance is everyone's duty, and helping the Zionist regime is a crime and treason,” he said.
Ayatollah Khamenei expressed regret over the “criminal” assistance of some Islamic states to the Zionist regime, saying Muslim nations will not forget it.
The Islamic governments, he said, "have a responsibility to prevent goods, oil and fuel from reaching the Zionist regime, which has even prevented water from reaching the people of Gaza”.
“Muslim nations should ask their governments to cut off any ties and aid to Zionist criminals, or if they are not able to cut ties permanently, at least put pressure on the evil, cruel and bloodthirsty regime by temporarily cutting them off.”Today, Sayyed Khamenei said, the conscience of the world has been hurt in the face of the Israeli barbarism.
“People in America and Europe are coming to the streets and some political figures and their university presidents and scientists are protesting their governments' support of the Zionist regime, but despite this, some governments continue to help the brutal regime.”