Iran condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinian refugee camps

Iran has strongly condemned Israel’s savage attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, which have left dozens of innocent civilians, including several infants, dead and injured.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei described Israel’s indiscriminate strikes in Gaza as a blatant violation of the fundamental principles and rules of international law.

He said the United Nations and its members are under a moral obligation to prevent the Israeli genocide and ensure the regime’s compliance with the rules of humanitarian law.

Baghaei said it is necessary to expedite the prosecution of cases opened by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court against the Israeli regime and its officials for committing war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

He also called for effective action by the international community and regional countries to immediately stop Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and send food and medicine to Gaza.

Baghaei said that the international community must hold accountable and punish the regime’s corrupt officials, completely withdraw the occupiers from the Gaza Strip, and find solutions to confront the Zionist regime’s evil deeds against regional countries, including Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.

Israel launched its genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out the historic Al-Aqsa Flood operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Failed to achieve its declared objectives in Gaza, the Tel Aviv regime accepted Hamas’s longstanding negotiation terms under a Gaza ceasefire, which began on January 19.

Two months later, however, Israel unilaterally broke the truce and resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza.

The situation is compounded by the regime simultaneously tightening its blockade of Gaza to crippling proportions, cutting off vital supplies of food and medicine to the territory’s 2.3-million-strong residents.

The blockade imposed on Gaza since early March has also prevented any medicines or medical supplies from reaching Gaza and has plunged the region’s healthcare system into a catastrophic state.

Humanitarian groups have raised alarms about the growing restrictions on aid, with charity kitchens, the last source of food for many, shutting down as their supplies run out, and raising the prospect of dozens of additional closures.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the death toll since October 2023 has reached 52,862, most of them women and children.