Iran: Israeli genocide in Gaza reoccurring in West Bank
Israel detonates 23 buildings in West Bank’s Jenin
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei warned on Monday that the continuation of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip is happening in the occupied West Bank.
Speaking during his weekly press conference, Baqaei called on the international community to stop Israel from repeating its Gaza genocide against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Since a cease-fire in Gaza, the Israeli regime has intensified its attacks in the occupied West Bank and has killed dozens of Palestinians.
“Despite the cease-fire in Gaza, the [Israeli] crimes and killings continue in the West Bank. As human rights rapporteurs warned, it seems that the crime of genocide is going to be repeated in the West Bank,” Baqaei said.
He called on the international community to take “a serious action” to prevent the repetition of the Gaza genocide in the West Bank.
“The international community should not allow the normalization of killing,” he said. On Sunday, Israel destroyed 23 buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, hours after its forces killed a 73-year-old man, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
A spokesperson for the Israeli occupation army said the military has killed 50 Palestinians in the West Bank since mid-January.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the blasts were so powerful they were heard across the city and in the surrounding towns.
President Mahmoud Abbas requested an urgent session of the UN Security Council to stop the destruction of entire residential blocks in the Jenin and Tulkarm camps.
The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the occupied West Bank last month, dubbed “Iron Wall”, focused primarily on attacking Palestinian armed groups from the Jenin area, just after it began a cease-fire with the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza on January 19.
‘Israeli leaders must be tried’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman also on Monday denounced the West’s support for Israel in the Gaza war through supplying lethal weapons, noting that the Israeli leaders must be tried for the crimes committed by the regime.
In response to a question about US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Baqaei said that it would amount to “ethnic cleansing.”
He said the international community should help Palestinians “secure their right to self-determination... rather than pushing for other ideas that would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”
The remarks from Baqaei come after Trump repeatedly floated an idea to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and move its population to Egypt and Jordan.
“Cleaning out Gaza... is part of colonial erasure of (the) Gaza Strip and the whole Palestine,” Baqaei said, adding that “no third party” can decide on the future of the Palestinian territory.