Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has censured Western countries for staunchly supporting Israel’s war on Gaza, where more than 12,000 children have been killed, stating that such an approach laid bare their hollow slogans and hypocrisy.
“[Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has reduced the Gaza Strip to rubble and caused the death of more than 12,000 children and over 8,000 women in Gaza,” Mekdad said in a series of posts published on X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday evening.
“The total number of victims whose lives he has taken now stands at nearly 31,000, something which could be best described as genocide.”
He added that the mantra that European Union strategists have long been promoting about the rules-based international order is now absolutely meaningless.
“Murderous Netanyahu has not spared any regulation, and has infringed upon international law, international humanitarian law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of the United Nations, children’s and women’s rights, democracy, disarmament, and [global] peace,” the top Syrian diplomat asserted.
Mekdad further argued that what is “more dangerous than the crimes of Netanyahu and his ruling clique is the backing he receives from many EU governments, not to mention Washington’s blind support he is showered on.”
“Everyone knows that much of what EU leaders have done now or in the past was nothing but hypocrisy, travesty and dishonesty. Their defense of Netanyahu’s crimes pulled the rug out from under them, and laid bare their true nature. It showed they are mere puppets of Zionism and enemies of public rights and aspirations,” the Syrian foreign minister underscored.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza on October 7, 2023, at least 31112 Palestinians, including mostly women and children, have lost their lives, while 72760 others have been injured.
The Israeli military offensive has left a trail of destruction in Gaza, leaving hospitals in ruins and displacing around half of its 2.4 million residents.
Israel has additionally enforced a comprehensive blockade on the coastal sliver, severing the supply of fuel, electricity, sustenance and water to the population of over two million Palestinians residing there.
