IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY TEAM TO VISIT BESIEGED GAZA STRIP

A picture taken on July 26, 2014, shows rubble of destroyed buildings in the Shejaiya residential district of Gaza City. (Press TV) — **A picture taken on July 26, 2014, shows rubble of destroyed buildings in the Shejaiya residential district of Gaza City.** (Press TV)

Tehran, 29 Ramadan 1435/27 July 2014 (MINA) – An Iranian parliamentary delegation plans to visit the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday, a lawmaker says.

Hassan Kamran, who leads the delegation, says the six-member team is scheduled to travel to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Sunday.

Kamran noted that the Iranian lawmakers plan to visit the families of people affected during the Israeli strikes on Gaza.

He added that the lawmakers await visa from interest sections of Egypt in Tehran.

The parliamentary delegation includes Kamran, Mohammad Ali Pour-Mokhtar, Abdollah Ta’mini, Esmail Kowsari, Ruhollah Hosseinian and Mohammad Dehqani.

The Palestinian death toll has reached about 1,050 from about three weeks of Israeli strikes. Thousands of Palestinians have been also injured in the onslaught.

Israeli warplanes have been carrying out incessant airstrikes against the blockaded Gaza Strip since July 8. Thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground incursion into the densely-populated strip on July 17.

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, has been launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.

While Israel confirms 40 Israelis have been killed in the war, Hamas sources put the number at about 90. (T/E01/IR)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)