Iran: Continued Genocide in Gaza Sounds Alarm

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian vehemently condemned "the actions taken by the Zionist entity to separate northern Gaza from the south and implement a policy of starvation for the forced displacement of residents, planning assaults on Rafah, preventing residents from returning to their residential areas in Gaza, and blocking United Nations relief agencies from reaching all residents of this area." Abdollahian emphasized in a message to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the President of the Security Council, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as well as foreign ministers of Islamic countries and other nations, that "preventing this catastrophe is the direct responsibility of the international community and international organizations, especially the United Nations." He pointed out that "everyone expects the United Nations to prevent this humanitarian catastrophe in the contemporary century by resorting to Article 99 of its charter and other mechanisms." Abdollahian noted that the continued genocide in Gaza has sounded the alarm for an unprecedented disaster, and that seeking practical ways and taking serious measures by the international community to support the Palestinian people, an immediate halt to military assaults against Gaza, and resolving the current deteriorating situation, "is extremely urgent and necessary given the ongoing failure of the United Nations Security Council to stop the war on Gaza and the assaults on the West Bank." Abdollahian also remarked that "the ineptitude of the Security Council on this issue is due to the clear and deliberate obstruction by the United States of any effective action by this council, with its continuous resort to using the veto power to prevent the passage of any resolution condemning the occupying entity and its crimes."