Speaking at a ceremony in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Friday, Major General Hossein Salami extolled the surprise attack by Palestinian Resistance groups against Israeli regime’s forces in the occupied territories on October 7.
Salami was speaking on the 35th day of Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest military operation by the Gaza Strip-based Resistance groups against the occupying regime in decades.
At least 1,500 Palestinians launched an attack, and during the attack and on the [Israeli] front line, not a single Palestinian was martyred and not a single shot was fired, and all the weapons were disabled even though all the settlers were armed, Salami said.
The Israeli occupation military had stationed a reliable and strong defense system near the Gaza Strip but they failed to notice; no one noticed, he stated. 
“Today, the deterrence capacity of the Zionist regime has been broken,” Salami stated.
“The United States cannot save the regime; it cannot give it artificial respiration. The Zionist regime has no roots in the political geography of this region and will definitely collapse,” he said. 
The Israeli regime waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian Resistance groups launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the regime’s intensified crimes against Palestinians.
The Palestinian Resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic jihad fired about 5,000 missiles at the occupied territories, killing at least 1,400 Zionist troops and settlers, also detaining some 250 Zionists during their operation.
Since then, the occupying regime has embarked on an incessant bombardment of the Gaza Strip, with the Gaza-based health ministry announcing on Friday that 11,078 people, including 4,506 children, have been killed, and 27,490 others have sustained injuries.
The Tel Aviv regime has also blocked access to water, food, and electricity in Gaza, plunging the coastal area into a humanitarian crisis.
The Israeli regime has over the past weeks launched several strikes on Gaza’s medical and educational facilities as part of its onslaught.
Tel Aviv has so far defied international calls to implement a ceasefire aimed at taking Palestinian civilians, including women and children, out of harm’s way.
MP/PressTV