Iranians hold nationwide rallies to condemn Israeli crimes
Iranians took to the streets of cities across the country to show their solidarity with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip who have been under relentless Israeli attacks for weeks now.
Thousands of people, from all walks of life, hit the streets of different cities and provinces on Saturday to express their outrage at the ongoing Israeli bloodshed in Gaza.
They waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against the occupying Israeli regime and its western backers, the US in particular.
The protesters also condemned Israeli massacre of innocent civilians and called for the regime to be taken to task for its crimes.
Since the beginning of Israel’s aggression on the Gaza Strip after October 7, at least 12,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in the regime’s attacks.
Israel has also imposed a total blockade on the Palestinian territory, restricting the entry of water, electricity, fuel and medical supplies.
Israeli attacks have destroyed thousands of buildings and infrastructures, including hospitals, schools and mosques.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Saturday that Israel’s attacks on hospitals and medical centers are in conflict with all standards of human rights, international law and the Geneva Conventions.
He said that such a move “makes the criminal nature of this regime (Israel) even more obvious to the world.”
“After the failure of the Israeli authorities to prove their false claims on Shifa Hospital, its army resumed its attacks on other hospitals in Gaza.”
“Attacks on Jordanian & Indonesian hospitals were yet another manifestation of the regime’s aggression and brutality,” Nasser Kanaani wrote in a post published on X.
On Saturday, 700 Iranian media outlets, including news agencies, newspapers, news bases and publications, also condemned the unprecedented killing of people and journalists by the Israeli regime.
“We, Iranian media, condemn with a heart full of sorrow the martyrdom of 50 journalists in Gaza and the intentional targeting of their homes by the Zionist occupying regime, which in many cases has led to the martyrdom of the families of these loved ones, along with the killing of more than 11,000 oppressed people of Gaza, among them thousands of women and children who have been turned to blood and dust,” they said in a statement.
“The media of the Islamic Republic of Iran honor the memory of the martyrs of the enlightenment path in Gaza, in unison with all the free people of the world, and consider these crimes as another confirmation of the autocratic nature of this fake regime and the brutality of its supporters,” they added.
Cities across the world have also been the scene of pro-Palestinian rallies in recent weeks.