Iran’s FM calls UN inaction on Gaza ‘catastrophe of diplomacy of the century’
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian denounced the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) inaction vis-à-vis the Israeli regime’s genocide against the Palestinians.
“What we are witnessing today in [terms of] the UN Security Council’s inaction concerning the genocide in Gaza amounts to the catastrophe of diplomacy of the century,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
He made the remarks at a meeting of his counterparts from various countries, which was being held on the sidelines of the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday, Press TV reported.
Beyond doubt, this period of time would pass, despite all the travails and sufferings that it has afflicted on the oppressed and resilient people of Palestine, the top diplomat said. However, the attitude that is adopted concerning this genocide by each country or international organization “will go down in history,” he asserted.
The Israeli regime launched the war following Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, a surprise operation staged by Gaza’s resistance movements against the occupied territories.
As part of its consistent political patronage for the Israeli regime, the United States, which is Tel Aviv’s main benefactor, has so far vetoed three UNSC resolutions that have called for implementation of an immediate cease-fire in the Israeli onslaught.
So far, nearly 30,000 people have died in the Israeli aggression that also enjoys unreserved military and intelligence support on the part of Washington.
Amir-Abdollahian was remindful that women and children comprised around 70 percent of the deaths, saying the child fatalities “amount to the most horrific rate of infanticide throughout human history.”
‘Slow death’
Amir-Abdollahian noted that, apart from those who were being killed directly during the onslaught, a whopping number of Palestinians were also suffering “slow death” as a result of a simultaneous siege that the regime was employing against the coastal sliver.
The regime’s “direct and intentional” attacks on health care facilities had, meanwhile, come to deprive the Palestinians of the medical equipment and drugs that were needed by tens of thousands of injured Gazans, he said.
“The wounded and even children are being operated on, without anesthetics,” the foreign minister noted. He also reminded that “as a result of unsanitary conditions, infectious diseases have come to threaten the lives of more human beings every day.”
Amir-Abdollahian, meanwhile, warned about the expected dire consequences of a potential ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which has come to host more than half of the territory’s 2.3-million-strong population, who have fled there from the ravages of the war.
He considered arming the regime amid the aggression to be an “unforgiveable wrong,” advising the international community to sever all their economic and commercial ties with the apartheid regime.