MP: Iranian Nation Not to Remain Indifferent to Zionists’ Crimes in Gaza

The Iranian nation is rigid in its support for the oppressed people of Palestine and would no way remain indifferent to the Zionists’ recent aggressions against Gazans, a legislator reiterated.

“The Iranian nation, as the defender of the rights of the Muslims and the oppressed in the world, cannot be indifferent with regard to the crimes by the Zionist regime of Israel,” Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Defense Commission Esmail Kowsari said.

Assaults on Gaza started on Wednesday when the Israeli military launched a series of new air and sea attacks against the Palestinians in the coastal territory.

Ahmed al-Ja’abari, the popular and influential head of the Hamas military wing, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was assassinated in an Israeli attack on his car on Wednesday.

On Friday, Ahmed Abu Jalal, a field commander of the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was also killed in an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza district of Maghazi.

Over 41 people have been killed and more than 350 others injured in the new wave of Israeli attacks.

At least nine Palestinian children have been killed and over 60 injured in Israeli airstrikes since Wednesday, according to the UN.

An 11-month-old boy and a pregnant woman are among the dead.

The UN special body for the protection of children has called for an immediate end to the bloodshed. “I call on all parties to immediately stop the violence and to fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect girls and boys from the fighting,” said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms Leila Zerrougui.

On Friday, hundred of thousands of Iranians all across the country staged demonstrations to protest at Israel’s attacks on the oppressed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Protesters unanimously condemned Zionists’ crimes in the besieged enclave.

The people carrying placards chanted ‘Down with the US’ and ‘Down with the Israel’ and other anti-Zionist slogans.