<P> In Lebanon, the day after the resumption of direct peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah secretary - general, declared that: </P> <P> Our nation cannot ignore and forget this cause (al - Quds) because it is part of our religion, our religious commitment, our culture, our civilization, our morals and values and our past history...No one has the right to give up one span of its land, one grain of its sacred sand, one drop of its water, or one letter of its name . Al Quds Day is the day for announcing this ideological, legal, historic true constant position . On this day we make the announcement that neither al - Quds nor even one of its streets nor even a neighbourhood of its neighbourhoods--and not only all of al - Quds - may be an eternal capital for the so called state of Israel . Al Quds is the capital of Palestine, and as we have said in the past, it is the capital of earth and the capital of heaven one way or another .' </P> <P> In Quetta, Pakistan, a suicide bomber attacked Pakistani Shias holding a Quds Day rally . The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least 65 people and wounded 160 . </P> <P> On 17 August 2012, millions of Iranians commemorated al - Quds Day, where they waved Palestinian flags, chanted "Death to Israel and America," and burned Israeli and American flags . Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called to destroy Israel, which he termed an "insult to all humanity" and called to remove the "Zionist black stain ." Ahmadinejad said that "the Zionist regime is a tool to dominate the Middle East," as well as that world powers are "thirsty for Iranian blood ." Ahmadinejad stated that "The Zionist regime and the Zionists are a cancerous tumour . Even if one cell of them is left in one inch of (Palestinian) land, in the future this story (of Israel's existence) will repeat ." He further stated that "The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land...A new Middle East will definitely be formed . With the grace of God and help of the nations, in the new Middle East there will be no trace of the Americans and Zionist ." </P>

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