The Islamic resistance in Iraq has threatened to escalate if the aggression against Gaza resumes. In a statement, it said: "What the Palestinian people have suffered from Zionist massacres and brutal genocide is part of a war managed by America against the people of Gaza and southern Lebanon." It continued: "The Islamic resistance in Iraq confirms that it will not leave its people to face the tyrants of the world alone in this war, and it announces its readiness and preparedness to escalate military operations inside and outside Iraq, if the American enemy insists on continuing the Zionist killing machine, whether in resilient Gaza or in the dignified south of Lebanon."