Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has called on the United Nations to act quickly to prevent potential aggression by the Israeli regime on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where more than a million Palestinians have sought shelter from Israel’s genocidal invasion of other parts of the enclave.
According to Iranian news agency IRNA, the Iranian FM addressed letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres warning against a new genocide against Palestinians in Rafah if Israel goes ahead with plans to invade the city.
“The international community must not let such carnage happen. Any military offensive on Rafah would undoubtedly qualify as another phase in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian nation,” said the letter.
The Iranian foreign minister also warned that an all-out invasion on Rafah would further endanger the lives of more than 1.5 million people already living in a dire humanitarian situation in the area.
Iranian FM stated in letter that as of 18 February 2024, close to 30,000 Palestinians, majority of them young children and women, are brutally killed while more than 7000 people remain buried under the collapsed buildings and more than 60,000 are wounded.
“The Israeli’s genocidal vengeance has not spared anyone who happen to live in the occupied Palestine, as over 85 journalists and more than 135 UNRWA aid workers are also brutally targeted.”
“The occupying regime has combined its indiscriminate military operation with cruel starvation campaign by deliberately depriving Gazans of food, water, humanitarian aid and other essential resources and making Gaza unlivable in order to force Palestinians out of Gaza. This can hardly be characterized as anything other than ‘genocide’, he mentioned.
Hossein Amirabdollahian said that more than 1.5 million people, most of them displaced, have already been squeezed into the small city of Rafah in the south.
“An all-out offensive on the city would be devastating for the 1.5 million Palestinian civilians there who are already on the edge of survival,” he added.
“The international community must not let such carnage happen. Any military offensive on Rafah would undoubtedly qualify as another phase in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian nation.”
”The UN system and the international community must act united in urging for an instant and permanent cessation of atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as well as an immediate end to the forced displacement of the Palestinian people and their unhindered access to humanitarian aid.”
“All States are legally and morally duty-bound to stop and prevent the genocide of the Palestinian nation. The United Nations shall urge all of its member States to refrain from collaborating with the occupying aggressor regime, which would constitute their complicity in the commission of the most serious crimes of international concern and would entail their international responsibility.”
