TEHRAN- The Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip has drawn criticism from Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, urging the international community to label the Tel Aviv occupation regime a “terrorist entity” and to hold its leaders responsible for “war crimes” against the Palestinians. people.
“Following the catastrophic attacks on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, mosques, schools and the Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, the Zionist regime has threatened to shell other hospitals in Gaza! »wrote Nasser Kanaani in an article on X on Saturday.
“Such horrific crimes mean that the Zionist regime has gone beyond the limits of madness,” Kanaani said, adding that they constitute a morally shameful scandal for governments that have long given unconditional support to the Zionist regime while preaching to others human rights.
Kanaani also said that occupation, aggression, war, misdeeds, assassinations, genocide, infanticide, attacks on mosques, churches, hospitals, ambulances and emergency vehicles, schools, homes and residential complexes, refugee camps and journalists, etc. are all crimes manifested collectively. in the contemporary world by a false terrorist regime called “Israel”, with a record of 75 years of incessant atrocities.
“Today, all these crimes are being committed simultaneously and daily in Gaza, right in front of the international community,” he added.
Kanaani continued by emphasizing: “All those who advocate freedom, justice and fairness throughout the world demand that the Israeli regime be designated internationally as a terrorist entity and that Zionist leaders be prosecuted and punished as war criminals. . »
On Friday, Kanaani also sharply criticized the Israeli airstrike on a church in the Gaza Strip that housed displaced Palestinians.
Kanaani said the attack is another “shameful” crime committed by Israeli forces in Gaza, referring to the deadly October 17 Israeli strike on the al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital, where the wounded had taken refuge. and those fleeing Israeli bombings.
“This is another black and shameful episode in a series of crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist regime and its criminal political and military leaders,” Kanaani said.
Such attacks demonstrate that the Zionist regime does not respect any humanitarian, moral and religious values and principles, as well as international norms and regulations, the ministry spokesperson stressed.
He also blamed the United States and some European countries, which are strong allies of Tel Aviv, for the atrocities committed by the Israeli regime.
All religions condemn this “horrible crime,” he added, emphasizing the “international responsibility” to chronicle atrocities and hold “Zionist criminals and their known supporters” to account.
Furthermore, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, denounced the strike on Friday as the “last crime of the occupying apartheid regime”.
“The savage act of aggression, desecration of divine religions and attacks on the historical and cultural heritage of the hated regime is comparable to that of terrorist groups such as Daesh,” he wrote.
After the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, carried out the unexpected Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against Israel on October 7 in response to the regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and devastation against the Palestinians, Israel has declared war on Gaza.
Since the start of the Israeli attack, thousands of Palestinians have lost their lives.
The figures given on Friday show 4,385 people killed, including 1,756 children and 967 women. Another 13,561 people were injured. 70 percent of victims of Israeli attacks are children, women and the elderly.
Hamas also announced on Saturday that at least 55 people had been killed in nighttime raids in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, Tel Aviv has cut off Gaza’s access to food, water and electricity, leading to a humanitarian crisis across the coastal strip.
1.1 million residents of the northern Gaza region were ordered by the regime to leave and resettle south of this small coastal strip.
However, he continued to drop bombs on the south.
The United Nations said about half of Gaza’s Palestinians were left homeless, still stuck inside the besieged strip.
According to the UN human rights office, Israel’s total blockade of Gaza and evacuation order could amount to forced resettlement of residents in violation of international law.
Since October 7, the Israeli regime has dropped nearly 12,000 bombs on Gazans.
According to Al Jazeera, the Palestinian Authority called for “genuine international pressure” on Israel to end the aggression and for humanitarian aid to continue arriving in Gaza.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement cited by the official Wafa news agency that it also considered the Israeli air raids on the Jenin camp a dangerous escalation due to the use of aircraft.
He said the attack was an attempt to extend the pattern of bombing the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank.
