TEHRAN- Since early October, around seven hundred Iranian media outlets have denounced Israel’s “unprecedented” slaughter of reporters and civilians in Gaza.

The crimes committed by the Tel Aviv regime must stop immediately, according to a statement released on Friday by almost 700 Iranian news agencies, newspapers, news organizations and publications. 

The Iranian press pledged solidarity with all journalists across the globe who demand freedom.

They denounced the deliberate targeting of journalists' homes by the Israeli regime, which has resulted in the death of their family members in several cases, and the martyrdom of fifty reporters in Gaza.

The Iranian journalists expressed their sympathy for the victims of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and for everyone in the world who seeks freedom.

They expressed optimism that united actions would prevent the international community from disregarding Israel’s callous methods and lead to the restitution of Palestinian lands to their rightful owners.

Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza have once again demonstrated the “autocratic” nature of the phony Israeli regime and the cruelty of its followers, according to the statement.

It underlined that the people of Gaza will ultimately prevail in their conflict with the Israeli regime. 

On Thursday, the chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, asserted that Palestinian youths are adjusting to the new circumstances in Gaza, where Israel and the U.S. are stuck in a “quagmire.”

He added, “Palestinian youth are adapting to the new conditions and have just learned the rules of the war. They have created a quagmire for America and Israel not only on the battlefield but also in politics, intelligence and security.”

“Gaza will become a graveyard for the Zionists. They used to fight inside fortifications and behind walls and thought that those walls would protect them from God’s wrath, but God’s punishment would reach them from where they don’t imagine,” the senior commander stressed. 

He added, “Today, they have crossed the walls and exposed their tanks to Palestinian youths who hunt the tanks and bulldozers from close range in such a way that 180 of their 1,600 tanks have been destroyed to date, which means more than 10% of them have been wiped out.”

Gen. Salami went on to highlight that Israel could anticipate additional shocks similar to Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the worst operation in Israeli history, in which Palestinian resistance forces overran the occupied territories.  

“Just as the al-Aqsa Storm came from a place the enemy did not calculate, they must wait for other storms that will reach them from where they do not figure out,” he noted. 

Gen. Salami continued, “The Muslims of the world today are more empathetic than ever, and even in the non-Muslim world a world stands against America and its partners.”

In a message on Thursday, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, had received assurances from the commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC, Brig. Gen. Ismail Qaani, in regards to the solidarity of the “Axis of Resistance” with Palestinian fighters.

He continued, “Your brothers in the axis of al-Quds and the resistance are united with you, and they will not allow the enemy to reach its dirty goals in Gaza and Palestine.”

The Axis of Resistance refers to an alliance among Iran, Syria and anti-Israeli groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere which have hit Israeli and U.S. targets in recent weeks in solidarity with Gaza.

Gen. Qaani praised the Hamas fighters’ Oct. 7 Operation al-Aqsa Storm, which caught Israel off guard and dispelled the regime’s fiction of supremacy in all spheres, including military might and intelligence capabilities.

He went on to add, “You created a great epic called the al-Aqsa Storm, which was accomplished with the help of God and by the holy fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades and the resistance in Gaza.”

“Palestine and the region after the al-Aqsa Storm will not be the same as before,” Gen. Qaani averred. 

In another part of his message, Qaani said, “You clearly showed the weakness and fragility of the usurping Zionist regime and you showed in a practical and decisive way that the regime is weaker than a cobweb.”

The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, also chastised on Thursday the Western nations for penning and supporting a UN resolution that is critical of Iran, asserting that they lacked the authority to advocate for human rights.

He made the comments one day after the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution written by Canada criticizing what they called Iran’s mistreatment of women and girls.

“How is it that the U.S. and some Western countries do not see the massacre of children and women by the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza and instead issue a resolution against Iran by repeating baseless claims founded on false information and dishonest generalizations?” he said.

After the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying regime in reprisal for increased Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7.