Al-Assad made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Damascus on Friday evening.
The top Iranian diplomat described the brutal killing of Gaza’s people, children, women, and the elderly, plus the blockade, cutting off water, electricity, and fuel in the area, as well as the bombardment of Gaza’s homes, public and medical facilities as war crimes.
Some international and Western officials consider Netanyahu’s extreme policies and provocative actions to be responsible for launching the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation by the Palestinian Resistance, however, they call on just the Palestinian side to exercise utmost restraint, he added.
Westerners believe that the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation showed that Palestine is still alive, he further noted.
Supporting Palestine by Iran and Syria is a crystal clear issue, but the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation was a completely Palestinian decision, design, and action, the top Iranian diplomat highlighted.
Pointing out that the West is seeking to fabricate the facts in Gaza to justify and legitimize the Zionists’ crimes, he reiterated that the Palestinian Resistance has the ability to continue to resist the Zionist regime for a long time.
The US can not call on others to exercise restraint while providing arms support to the Zionist regime to be used against Palestinian civilians, Amir-Abdollahian went on to say.
Regarding the complicated and painful condition in Gaza due to the Zionist war crimes against Gaza civilians and its residents, Amir-Abdollahian said that efforts by all sides should be focused on preventing the continuation of the Israeli regime’s war crimes in Gaza. In this regard, the Islamic Republic of Iran has offered the idea of holding an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of Islamic countries and also has submitted its readiness official letter to host it.
Bashar al-Assad, for his part, expressed his concern about the volume of the Zionists’ crimes against the people of Gaza, saying that the Zionists and their supporters want to diminish the victory achieved by the Palestinian people in recent developments or turn it into a ground for eliminating Resistance. He added that this approach is being pursued with the guidance and management of the US and Western countries.
The Syrian president described the reason for the West’s standing on the side of the Zionist regime as the high political, economic, and social crises of the Zionist regime and the danger of the collapse of this regime.
He supported Iran’s political initiative to hold an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of Islamic countries, saying that “we should try to prevent the continuation of the Zionist regime’s brutal crime against the people of Gaza”.
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