Iran condemns al-Mawasi massacre, calls for immediate action to curb Israeli crimes

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has vehemently condemned the latest deadly Israeli strike on a tented encampment in southern Gaza near Khan Yunis, saying the occupying Tel Aviv regime has no respect whatsoever for legal and international standards as well as moral principles.

Nasser Kan’ani on Tuesday denounced in the strongest terms the air attack on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi camp, southern Gaza, early this morning, and the massacre of dozens of homeless Palestinian civilians.

More than 45 people have been killed in the attack, while at least 60 people have been injured.

Kan’ani also censured the use of bunker busters in the strike on the tent encampment of displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, and disappearance of a number of people in vast craters created a result of the attack.

Al-Mawasi massacre: Hamas calls on intl. community to stop ‘Nazi regime’s holocaust’

Hamas denounces an Israeli attack on a tented encampment in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza Strip as “a brutal act of genocide.”

“With its insane attacks on Palestinian civilians and refugee camps, the terrorist Israeli regime once again showed that it does adhere neither to any legal and international standard nor any moral and humane principle,” the Iranian diplomat stated.

He referred to the ongoing Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the expansion of the regime’s aggression against the security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries in the West Asia region as a clear and undeniable manifestation of threats against the global peace and security, genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity.

Kan’ani then called for an immediate and effective action by international institutions, especially the United Nations Security Council, on the basis of the UN Charter and international law to create deterrence and curtail the unlimited crimes of the Israeli regime.

According to Palestinian media, ambulance and civil defense teams are facing considerable difficulty retrieving the bodies of the victims killed in the al-Mawasi attack.

Initial assessments suggest the attack is “one of the most heinous massacres in the ongoing frenzied war.”

Witnesses described chaotic scenes in the area, with fires burning and Israeli reconnaissance planes flying overhead.

Israel waged its atrocious war against the Gaza Strip, targeting hospitals, residences, and houses of worship, after Palestinian resistance movements launched a surprise attack, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, against the usurping regime on October 7 last year.

At least 41,020 Palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children. Another 94,925 individuals have sustained injuries as well.

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