ISLAMABAD: Iran has said that the international community, especially the Islamic nations need to fulfil their duties to end the aggression and genocide by the Israel, Iran’s embassy in Pakistan said in a statement on Saturday.
The embassy has issued a fact sheet on the spread of regional tension, saying that after 76 years of occupation and other crimes by “the Zionist regime”, Hamas and other Palestinian Resistance groups in Gaza launched the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation on October 7th, 2023 to terminate occupation and crimes against humanity. This decision was made by the leaders of the resistance front and the people of Palestine and Gaza, it said. It added that based on the principled policies, Iran supported the Palestinian nation and resistance groups to help terminate the occupation.
It said that Israel, enjoying the complete support of the US and some Western nations, amid silence and inaction of the international community, has committed an unprecedented genocide in Palestine and massacred over 42 thousand innocent people, including children and women.
It added that Israeli regime destroyed all the infrastructures of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and recently Lebanon by attacking hospitals, schools, ambulances and journalists violating all recognized global rules and regulations and humanitarian rights.
The statement maintained that the world is witnessing genocide, infanticide, crimes against humanity, violation of human rights, breach of sovereignty and territorial integrity, use of weapons of mass destruction, recourse to cyber and technological terrorism, assassination, violation of diplomatic rights and invasion of diplomatic places, destruction of the cultural sites and the common heritages of humanity. It added that still American and Western officials nod to these crimes as the implementation of justice by the regime.
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It maintained that on the day of the Oath-taking ceremony of the President-elect of Iran, Israel assassinated Hemas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in violation of all international regulations and in egregious violation of Iranian sovereignty. It added that as per international law, Iran has the right to resort to countermeasures as an inherent, legal and enforceable right.
Following Gaza, Israel extended its aggression to Lebanon, and on September 27, 2024, in an inhumane act, Israel attacked Lebanon with 85 one-ton American bunker buster bombs leading to “the martyrdom of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah”, the leader of Hezbollah. It maintained that in this attack, in addition to Hezbollah members and civilians, General Abbas Nilforoushan, Iranian senior military adviser in Beirut, were also killed.
Unlike Israel, targeting the civilians and civil infrastructures, according to the principles of morality, Iran targeted military and security bases that are responsible for the genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. It claimed that based on the objectives of the operation, over 90% of the designated targets were successfully hit. It said that Iran never intends to invade another country and seeks for the regional and global peace still remains serious in implementing the inherent right of legitimate defence against any aggression.
It maintained that Iran’s operation is now concluded, unless the Israeli regime continues its aggression in violation of Iran’s sovereignty. In this case, Iran’s response will prove even stronger, the statement said.
The international community, especially the Islamic nations, while expressly condemning the illegal acts of Israel, need to fulfil their duties to end the aggression and genocide by the Israeli regime.
