As Israel began its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel and the United States had struck Iran’s leadership the “heaviest blow” it had ever seen.
“We dealt that regime the worst blow in its history. “It is weaker than it has ever been,” Netanyahu remarked at a state event at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem that was broadcast yesterday, according to AFP.
Israel has been fighting on many fronts since October 7, 2023, when the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked the country. This started a terrible battle in Gaza that eventually involved other Iranian allies.
Netanyahu added, “For two and a half years, we have been systematically crushing the Iranian axis of evil” in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the occupied West Bank.
He went on to say that if we hadn’t acted, names like Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, and Parchin might have been as horrible as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Sobibor. He compared Iranian nuclear installations to Nazi-era death camps.
Israel will have its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day from last night till tonight, with tributes for the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
The celebration happens every year in April or May, according to the Hebrew calendar. It is not the same as International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.
This year’s memorial is happening in the middle of a two-week ceasefire with Iran in a regional war that started on February 28 with attacks by the US and Israel on Iran.
Even if there is a ceasefire, Israel is still attacking Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.
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