IRAN DENOUNCES ZIONIST REGIME’S KILLING OF KIDS IN GAZA
Tehran, 12 Shawwal 1435/8 August 2014 (MINA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denounced Israel’s occupation regime forces brutal massacre of people in the Gaza Strip, especially children.
The top diplomat made the remarks in a message to a local gathering Thursday staged to show Iranian children’s solidarity with the kids in Gaza, which has been the scene of brutal Israeli occupation regime forces raids over the past month.
Zarif said that no children in the world can even for a moment witness the tears of defenseless kids in Gaza who are being killed or displaced simply because they are Palestinians, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Friday.
“The tradition of killing children is only practiced by brutal tyrants who have no respect for any humanitarian principles and respond to children’s cries of anger with guns, cannon barrels and tanks,” part of the message said.
Zarif also said that the Israeli occupation regime forces occupation regime forces land and aerial aggression against Gazan children, which he said, does not even spare hospitals, schools and kindergartens.
Israel occupation regime forces unleashed its recent massive offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 8. Nearly 1,900 people, including more than 400 children, have been killed and over 9,500 others injured by the Israeli regime’s four-week onslaught on the coastal enclave.
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said the destructive effects of the Israeli occupation regime forces incursion into the besieged Gaza Strip are “almost indescribable.”
“We see children killed, injured, mutilated and burnt, in addition to being terrified to their core. The consequences run much deeper than previous flare-ups,” said Pernille Ironside, the chief of the UNICEF field office in the blockaded area.
Iranian children deplore Israel’s killing of children
Iranian children have deplored the killing of their fellow peers in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime and expressed sympathy with those suffering under oppression in the enclave.
Iranian children took part in a pro-Palestinian gathering on Thursday, dubbed “Children of Gaza, Children of Iran,” to voice solidarity with their fellow Palestinian kids with Iranian officials also sending messages to the event.
Decades into Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and mass slaughter of oppressed Palestinians, the Tel Aviv regime has once again started killing children in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said.
Larijani further said the Iranian nation has been deeply saddened by the deaths of innocent Palestinian children at the hands of the Zionist regime, which has the flagrant support of the Western states.
In a similar message to the Thursday event, Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani censured the Israeli regime for committing “horrifying crimes” against defenseless women and children in Gaza.
The Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities against the inhabitants of the impoverished enclave is an example of “war crimes,” added the Iranian judiciary chief.
About 1,900 Palestinians, including more than 400 children, have been killed and over 9,500 others wounded since the Israeli military first launched its brutal military aggression against Gaza on July 8.
Latest reports say indirect ceasefire negotiations between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israel in Egypt has reached a deadlock.
This is while a three-day ceasefire between Hamas and Tel Aviv, which had taken effect on Tuesday morning, expired at 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) on Friday. (T/E01/IR)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
