TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian people attended nationwide demonstrations on Friday morning to mark the annual International Quds Day in support of Palestine and in condemnation of the Israeli regimes genocidal crimes against Gaza.

Iranian people from all walks of life have poured to the streets to stage pro-Palestinian marches in over 900 cities across the country.

The demonstration commemorating the International Quds Day in Tehran kicked off at 10 am as people will converge on the University of Tehran from ten different routes.

The keynote speaker in Tehran is Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

Zainab Nasrallah, the daughter of late Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah who was martyred in an Israeli strike in Beirut in September 2024, is going to deliver a speech before the Friday prayers in Tehran.

The demonstrators in the rallies have hoisted the flags of the resistance and pro-Palestinian groups, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas.

The International Quds Day is an annual event during which demonstrators express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the Zionist regime of Israel.

The day is seen as the legacy of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, who officially declared the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as International Quds Day back in 1979.

This years Quds Day is marked against a backdrop of the Israeli regimes onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

Gazas Health Ministry says at least 50,208 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 113,910 wounded in Israels war on Gaza since October 7, 2023.

Gazas Government Media Office has updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead.