Iran’s foreign minister has slammed Israel’s brutal massacre of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying that changes in the regional conditions are possible if Israel’s crimes against Palestinians continue.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Saturday meeting with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, in Doha. The Iranian top diplomat was in the Qatari capital as part of a regional tour that has already taken him to Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.
“If the Zionist regime’s crimes against the people and citizens of Palestine continue, nobody can guarantee that conditions in the region will remain the same,” Iran’s top diplomat said.
His remarks came after 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.
As many as 2,269 people, including over 700 Palestinian children, have been so far killed and 9,814 others injured since the regime launched its bloody aggression against the coastal territory.
Adding to his Saturday remarks, Amir-Abdollahian called the Israeli regime’s daily massacre of hundreds of Palestinians intolerable.
“It is not tolerable that the Zionist regime kills hundreds of Palestinians every day and this war crime as well as the blockade of Gaza and cutting access of [the people of Gaza] to water and food and medicines must come to an end,” he said.
Slamming the United States’ approach to Israel’s crimes in Gaza, Amir-Abdollahian said, “While a great number of Palestinians are being killed by the Zionist regime on a daily basis, the US administration calls on others to show self-restraint. At the same time, it has increased its all-out military support for the criminal Zionist regime.”
He also expressed gratitude towards Doha for its supportive position concerning Palestine amid the current developments.
Israel’s military campaign has seen the regime leveling entire districts and using banned white phosphorous munitions against densely-populated neighborhoods of Gaza.
The regime is simultaneously imposing an all-out siege on the Palestinian territory, choking up the flow of foodstuff, medicines, and fuel towards the sliver, and disrupting its supply of water and electricity.
Earlier in Lebanon, the Iranian foreign minister warned that the Palestinian resistance groups would tap into their various capacities if the Israeli regime pressed ahead with its barbaric onslaught against the besieged territory. And in Syria, he said the region’s resistance groups were ready for all scenarios in the face of the Israeli regime.
While Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has announced that its “guns and rockets” are with Palestinian fighters, Iraq’s anti-terror group, Kata’ib Hezbollah, has threatened to target American bases in the Arab country and the entire region if the United States intervened in the ongoing fighting between the Palestinian fighters and the Israeli regime.
Last Tuesday, Iraq’s anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah threatened to target American bases in the Arab country and the entire region if the United States intervened in the ongoing fighting between the Palestinian fighters and the Israeli regime.
For his part, the Qatari official described continuation of the dire situation in Gaza, including the Israeli regime’s attacks on the Palestinian people, as a cause for concern.
He said the issue of Palestine was the most pressing issue for the entire Muslim world, saying that regional countries are united in their support for the Palestinian people amid the Israeli atrocities.
