Israel National News reports: “Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed on Tuesday that Gaza had ‘brought Israel to its knees,’ referring to the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.

‘The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth and fully supported by America, to its knees,’ Khamenei remarked during a meeting with officials in Tehran, as quoted by the AFP news agency.

Before the ceasefire came into effect, Khamenei hailed it as a defeat for Israel.

‘It will be written in books that there was a mob who once killed thousands of children and women in Gaza,’ Khamenei wrote in a post on social media site X earlier this month…”