Amidst a flare-up across Israel-Palestine, IRGC Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani reportedly wrote to a Hamas military official that “no matter how much pressure mounts [on Iran] and to what degree sanctions are intensified, we will never let Palestine be alone… We will not stop until the usurping Zionist regime [ie, Israel] is annihilated and every inch of the land of Palestine is liberated”. Referring to the Abraham Accord normalising relations between Israel and some Gulf Arab states, Qaani contended that “those who were involved in the process of selling out Palestine… will soon regret what they have done”.