Iran Deplores Zionist Regime's Intention to Fully Occupy Gaza

In a statement on Friday, Esmaeil Baghaei deplored the Zionist regime's newly approved plan to lay its full military control over the Gaza Strip as a clear sign of a wider plan to commit genocide in the entire Palestinian territories.

"The threat to complete occupation of Gaza and the historic land of Palestine by the criminal rulers [of the Zionist regime] who are wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and whose actions are being investigated by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a crime of genocide, is another clear sign of the Zionist regime's explicit intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza and genocide the Palestinians, which must be taken into account by the ICC and the ICJ," Baghaei said.

Emphasizing the legal and moral duties of each government and the United Nations to stop the genocide and heinous crimes being committed in occupied Palestine, Baghaei called the continued complicity of the United States and some other Western countries with the crimes of the Zionist regime disgraceful.

He called for forcing the Israeli regime to stop the genocide and immediately send humanitarian aid to the hungry and thirsty people of Gaza as a necessary step to end the catastrophe

He also referred to the Islamic Republic of Iran's previously submitted official request to the Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as Saudi Arabia as the home to the organization, and Turkey as the chairman of its Council of Ministers, to immediately hold an emergency meeting to discuss the deteriorating crisis in Gaza.

The Iranian spokesman further called for collective action on the part of Islamic countries to help the oppressed people of Palestine.