“In case Israel continues attacking the defenseless people of Gaza, there will be no guarantee that the situation would come under control and the conflict would not spill over,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a meeting with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Sunday.
Those who do not favor the expansion of the current war, the Iranian minister said, must stop Israel’s savagery.
Amir-Abdollahian also censured Washington for its contradictory approach, saying the United States invites others to exercise self-restraint but at the same time evades commitment and ramps up its all-out support for Israel.
The Iranian minister urged Muslim countries to work for an end to the “war crimes committed by the apartheid Zionist regime.”
He reiterated the importance of an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) under the current circumstances.
For his part, the Qatari emir expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and said Qatar’s stance on the Palestinian issue would never change as it prioritizes an end to the crimes of Israel in the besieged enclave.
Meanwhile, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi held a phone call with the Qatari Emir on Saturday night during which he denounced the Israeli aerial assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip as war crimes, calling for an end to the regime’s genocide of Palestinian people.
He also held the US and other allies of Tel Aviv responsible for the atrocities committed by Israel against the Palestinians.
The Israeli regime called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, declaring a “long” war on Gaza in response to Operation al-Aqsa Storm. The operation was launched by the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements last Saturday in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
The Gaza Health Ministry said 2,329 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 9,714 others injured by Israeli strikes.
This comes as more than 420,000 people are displaced within the Gaza Strip. A total of 270,374 out of 423,378 internally displaced people are located in UN shelters and schools.
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