News - Middle East: As the world marks the fourth anniversary of the US assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander, General Qassem Soleimani, pro-resistance voices dedicated to exposing US-Israeli war crimes in Gaza are growing louder and pushing for a free Palestine. 

This new international trend to form activist groups closely resembling the IRGC Quds Force in mission and objectives was sparked by the heroic operation of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, against the Israeli military fortresses built on illegal Zionist settlements.
The Palestinian operation, which came in response to decades of Israeli occupation and oppression, was followed by the Israeli genocidal war on the blockaded territory with US approval and weaponry.
The American military’s terror operation in early January 2020 against Gen. Soleimani -- widely recognized as the region’s leading anti-terror commander -- was ordered by then-US President Donald Trump, and fully supported by his then-top political opponent from the rival Democratic Party and eventual successor, Joe Biden.
The act of terrorism was clearly aimed at appeasing the Israeli regime, which had made no secret of how much it dreaded the IRGC Quds Force and its commander, as admitted by many                 Western observers.
This year’s anniversary of Gen. Soleimani’s terror assassination comes as more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza – mostly women and children -- have been slaughtered by US-supplied Israeli bombs and other armaments in less than three months, triggering a remarkable international outcry against the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv, and its top sponsors in Washington and other Western capitals.
This global outcry has also been marked by the formation of activist groups dedicated to exposing the criminal history of the Israeli regime’s occupation of Palestine and waging a massive campaign for its freedom from decades of US-led oppression.
Such activist groups can best be described as the new variations of Gen. Soleimani’s Quds Force in terms of their core objectives – ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands.