Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said the region’s resistance groups are ready for all scenarios in the face of the Israeli regime, which has brought the Gaza Strip under an all-out and indiscriminate war.
The top diplomat made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Faisal al-Mekdad in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday. Syria is Amir-Abdollahian’s third stop in a regional tour that has already taken him to Iraq and Lebanon.
He revealed that he had met earlier in the Lebanese capital Beirut with Secretary-General of the resistance movement of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and a number of other resistance leaders.
“I was informed [at that meeting] that the resistance has put all possible scenarios before itself, and [that the resistance groups] were in high spirits,” the Iranian official said.
As many as 1,799 Palestinians, including 583 children and 351 women, have been martyred and more than 7,000 others injured since Saturday, when the Israeli regime launched the war against the coastal sliver.
The military campaign has seen the regime leveling entire districts and featured its use of banned white phosphorous munitions against densely-populated neighborhoods.
The regime is simultaneously employing an all-out siege against the Palestinian territory. The blockade has choked up the flow of foodstuffs, medicines, and fuel towards the sliver, and disrupted its supply of water and electricity.
‘Mass carnage’
Amir-Abdollahian warned that the Zionist regime and its allies were trying to realize a “mass carnage” in Gaza through their continued disruption of the flow of food, water, and electricity towards the territory.
“I am willing to announce this message to the leaders of the Muslim and Arab countries in a loud voice that today, the oppressed people of Gaza are in need of immediate international assistance towards removal of the humanitarian siege and cessation of the Zionists’ crimes,” he said.
He criticized the Arab League for issuing a “bleak” statement on the situation that is faced by the people of Gaza, denouncing the grouping for its “vague and ambiguous positions.”
The official finally hoped that the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would meet soon in the Iranian capital of Tehran or elsewhere as means of addressing Gaza’s situation.
