There is no doubt that the action of the Palestinians against Israel was in defense of their inalienable and undeniable rights and their logical reaction to the repeated crimes of the Zionists and is supported by the free people of the world, especially the Islamic world.
With the increasing casualties of the Zionist regime and its inability on the battlefield, this regime is increasing its crimes by targeting defenseless people and civilian centers in Gaza. According to the Geneva Conventions approved in 1949 and their additional protocols approved in 1977, civilians and all those who do not participate in war should not be attacked under any circumstances and should be supported by governments and international organizations, including the United Nations Security Council.
In fact, according to international standards, the issue of war by bombing people and attacking defenseless cities is not the same; The conflict in the field and the front is called “war”, but the attack on innocent people is considered “crime”. The United Nations Security Council and international organizations are obliged to distinguish between war and crime and to prevent violations of international regulations by condemning the Israel Regime.
The discourse of “separating war from crime” was also raised by Ayatollah Khamenei, the president of Iran at the time, during the imposed war and because of Saddam’s attack on civilian areas and people. At that time, in a meeting with foreign delegations, he called “war” a military conflict in the field and attacked people and civilian places as “crime” and wanted to differentiate between war and crime. In an interview with the magazine, In this regard, he said:
“War has its own rules, just like other common issues, and the two sides of the war, who are enemies of each other, have always considered themselves obliged to follow these rules, even in the old wars. That is, when two armies were fighting each other, they considered themselves obliged to remove each other from the field and if necessary to kill the forces of the other side, but everywhere and always and in the eyes of most people, Cutting off the eyes or nose and ears of someone who has been killed, or killing women and children, as well as killing doctors and, for example, latecomers, is a prohibited and reprehensible act, and therefore the laws of war are not specific to our time and the people of the world even when they reach this level of They did not achieve the current civilization, they had rules to fight with their own enemy.”
All the evidence shows that in the recent war between the Palestinian people and the occupying regime of Al-Quds, the principle of not attacking defenseless people and residential areas was violated and civilians, including the Palestinian residential tower, were attacked and violated by the Zionist army. At the same time, based on all recognized international standards and fundamental principles of international law, the defense of the Palestinian people from their occupied land is a natural and legitimate right.
The discourse of “separating war from crime” has rational and humane foundations and is in accordance with international standards and regulations, and today international institutions such as the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Non-Aligned Movement, etc., must condemn the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the attack to the civilian areas and the defenseless people in Palestine, to demand the cessation of such crimes.
In this regard, the responsible institutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary, should be pioneers and the countries of the world, especially the members of the axis of resistance make it active and prevent the continuation of the crime of the Zionist regime with the necessary measures.
