Sun, 01 Feb 2009 | PressTV
A high-level delegation from Hamas has arrived in Tehran for talks with senior Iranian government officials on the 23-day war on Gaza.
The political leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, arrived in Tehran early Sunday morning as part of a regional tour that previously took him to Egypt, Qatar, Syria, and Turkey.
Mashaal is slated to meet with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He is also scheduled to deliver a speech on Israel's three week-long offensive on Gaza at the University of Tehran on Monday.
Israel declared a ceasefire after three weeks of unrelenting attacks on the Gaza strip. At least 1330 Palestinians were killed, while thousands of others remained hospitalized -- many of whom were women and children.
The January 18 ceasefire came into effect after Israel failed to achieve its main goal in Gaza - toppling the Hamas resistance movement.
On Saturday, thousands of Gazans took to the streets to support Hamas and its call for the creation of an alternative representative authority to replace the Fatah-run Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
The demonstrators in Khan Younis said that not only had Israel failed to bring Hamas to its knees, but its military campaign had further popularized the democratically-elected government among Palestinians.
 A high-ranking delegation of Hamas officials have arrived in Tehran. |
The political leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, arrived in Tehran early Sunday morning as part of a regional tour that previously took him to Egypt, Qatar, Syria, and Turkey.
Mashaal is slated to meet with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He is also scheduled to deliver a speech on Israel's three week-long offensive on Gaza at the University of Tehran on Monday.
Israel declared a ceasefire after three weeks of unrelenting attacks on the Gaza strip. At least 1330 Palestinians were killed, while thousands of others remained hospitalized -- many of whom were women and children.
The January 18 ceasefire came into effect after Israel failed to achieve its main goal in Gaza - toppling the Hamas resistance movement.
On Saturday, thousands of Gazans took to the streets to support Hamas and its call for the creation of an alternative representative authority to replace the Fatah-run Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
The demonstrators in Khan Younis said that not only had Israel failed to bring Hamas to its knees, but its military campaign had further popularized the democratically-elected government among Palestinians.
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