Iran, Oman urge global efforts to end Gaza blockade

Foreign ministers of Iran and Oman have called for international efforts to help end the Gaza blockade and dispatch foodstuff and medical aid to the besieged enclave.

In a telephone conversation on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah urged the Egyptian government to facilitate the dispatch of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

The Iranian minister said the international community must exert all-out pressure on the Israeli regime to immediately end its atrocities in Gaza.

He added that any ceasefire proposal should heed the legitimate demands of the Palestinian people for the lifting of the Gaza blockade and providing guarantees that the Israeli regime would not repeat its offensives.

Zarif expressed Iran’s readiness to dispatch urgent humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and admit injured Palestinians to Iranian hospitals.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to undertake the dispatch of physicians to treat the wounded Palestinians,” he added.

The Omani minister, for his part, expressed hope that the continuation of consultations among influential Muslim countries would ease the Palestinians’ suffering.

He lashed out at the Israeli regime for resuming its aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza and urged an immediate end to the attacks ahead of Eid al-Fitr.

Israel put an abrupt end to a humanitarian ceasefire requested by the United Nations on Sunday and resumed its fatal military attacks against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death toll from 20 days of Israeli aerial and ground assaults on Gaza has reached about 1,060 and at least 6,000 Palestinians have been injured in the onslaught.

The UN Human Rights Council has recently passed a resolution calling for an independent probe into Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.