Iran urges 'practical' Muslim support for Gaza as Western states rally behind Israel
Iran has called on Muslim countries to unite and respond to Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as Western governments renew their support for Tel Aviv by boycotting an event that excluded the regime.
“If Muslim governments and nations joined their hands based on their Islamic, humanitarian and legal duties, and practically supported the oppressed Palestinian nation and the defenseless residents of Gaza, Palestinian citizens, children and women would not have been slaughtered by the murderous clan,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said in an X post on Friday.
He was referring to Israel’s ongoing aggression against Gaza, which has killed at least 39,699 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 91,722 others since October 7, 2023.
The call came after it was revealed that the ambassadors to Japan of the United States and other Group of Seven (G7) nations, as well as the European Union, had sent a letter to Nagasaki authorities last month saying they would not attend a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city because Israel was snubbed.
Kan'ani quoted the Arabic text of a hadith by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the translation of which reads: "Whoever hears a man calling ‘O Muslims (asking for help)’ and does not respond to him is not considered as a Muslim."
In their letter, the Western ambassadors claimed Nagsaki authorities had politicized this year’s memorial service for the nuclear attack by failing to invite Israel.
However, Nagasaki's mayor, Shiro Suzuki, defended the decision to exclude Israel, saying it was "not political" but to avoid possible protests against the regime's Gaza onslaught.
On August 9, 1945, the US dropped a 4.5-ton plutonium bomb dubbed “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. It resulted in the obliteration of the city and the death of more than 70,000 of its residents.
The attack came three days after the US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing 140,000 people.
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