Middle East war, from Khamenei to Kadyrov: who are the leaders aligned with Hamas

PRO HAMAS LEADER

• From Iran to North Korea, there is a part of the world that, after the Hamas operation that caused hundreds of deaths in Israel, takes the side of the Islamic Resistance Movement. In the photo, Gaza after the Israeli attacks in response to Hamas violence

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AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI

• The anti-Israeli coalition is led by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime,” Khamenei declared, denying however that the Islamic Republic was involved in the Hamas attack on Israel

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• According to the ayatollah, “when cruelty and crime exceed limits and greed reaches its peak, one must expect the storm”, while on Sunday the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, congratulated the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh , reiterating “the Islamic Republic’s support for the resistance and the Palestinian people”

RUSSIA

• Even in Russia, despite the Kremlin’s position in favor of finding a solution to the crisis and apparently equidistant, there are those who rejoiced at the attack on 7 October. Among these is the Russian ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin, believed to be close to President Vladimir Putin, who published a message on Telegram in which he underlines that Russia must support Iran, believed to be the ‘instigator’ of the Hamas operation

KADYROV

• Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov also sided with the Palestinians. “We support Palestine. And we are against this war which, unlike other conflicts, can turn into something that goes beyond”, he wrote on Telegram, offering the contribution of the Chechen forces “for maintaining peace, restoring order and counter any instigators”

ALGERIA

• Perplexity in some Western chancelleries was then aroused by the harsh position of the Algerian government, which in a note expressed “great concern” for the “brutal Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip, which have cost the lives of dozens of innocent Palestinian people who fell martyrs”, victims of the “persistence of the Zionist occupation and the policy of tyranny and persecution towards the courageous Palestinian people”

IRAQ

• Even for the Iraqi government, the operation launched by Hamas against Israel is the result of the Jewish State’s policy towards the Palestinian Territories. “The actions taken today by the Palestinian people are the predictable result of decades of systematic oppression to which they have been subjected by the Zionist occupation authorities, who consistently ignore international law and United Nations resolutions,” spokesman Basem told the -Awadi

ERDOGAN

• The comment of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has long been a staunch defender of the Palestinian cause and who warned Israel against carrying out an “indiscriminate” attack in the Gaza Strip, was more nuanced. “Hitting the inhabitants of Gaza collectively and indiscriminately would only increase suffering and strengthen the spiral of violence in the region,” Erdogan told his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog

NORTH KOREA

• North Korea’s reaction could not be missed. North Korean state media has accused Israel of causing bloodshed in Gaza

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• Rodong Sinmun, of the Workers’ Party, wrote in an article: “The international community maintains that this clash is the result of Israel’s continued criminal acts against the Palestinian people and that the way out is to build an independent Palestinian state.”

The Israeli army in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, destruction and death after the Hamas attack