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Iran urges European action against Israel’s crimes in Gaza
He made the remarks in separate meetings with new ambassadors of the European countries who submitted a copy of their credentials in Tehran on Tuesday.
During his meeting with Italy’s new ambassador Paola Amadei, Mokhbar said that Iran expects Italy, as a country with a rich and ancient civilization and culture, to take effective measures to stop the Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip despite the support of certain countries to the occupying entity.
Italy’s ambassador, for her part, said her country is doing its utmost to cooperate with different countries, including Iran, to find solutions to the crisis in Gaza.
The Israeli regime has so far killed at least 37,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 87,060 others, since it waged the brutal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, according to the Gaza-based health ministry.
It has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces bombarded several areas of the southern Gaza Strip and thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes in what could be part of a final push for Israel’s intensive military offensives in nine months of war.
The latest strikes on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 in several neighborhoods of Khan Younis.
The wave of attacks, just weeks after Israeli tanks left the area, caused panic among residents, many already displaced multiple times and with no clear path to safety.
The Israeli military’s newly declared evacuation zone in Khan Younis encompasses an area where 250,000 people live, said Sam Rose, planning director at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The order “means yet another day, week, chapter of misery for these hundreds of thousands of people – we expect 250,000 people in areas under the evacuation order,” Rose told Al Jazeera from Nuseirat in central Gaza.
Some had just returned from Rafah, also in the south of the enclave, where they were displaced a few weeks ago.