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Iranian Gov’t Spokesman Blasts West’s Silence on ‘israel’s’ Massacring of Palestinian Children

Iranian Government Spokesperson Ali Bahador Jahromi lashed out at the Western countries and the international organizations for their silence over the Israeli butchering of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.

In an online Sunday post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Bahador Jahromi denounced the Israeli military onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged enclaved which has so far killed more than 1,800 children.

“Is the West’s reaction to the killing of children always the same as the Gaza war?” Bahadori Jahromi asked.

He cited that the West generally reacts differently when it comes to defending the rights of women and children from different countries.

“Are the standards of the West in defending the rights of women, children and the human beings equal in different countries?” the official added.

Gaza has been hit by a relentless barrage of Israeli fire following an attack by the Hamas fighters on October 7, which Israel confirms killed at least 1,400 people and wounded over 5,000 others. The group has announced it was in response to the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli settlers’ growing violence against Palestinians.

Nearly 7,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip against the occupied territories during a fortnight of Palestinian-Israeli conflict aggravation, according to the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday.

Israel’s military campaign since has killed at least 4,651 Palestinians, including 1,873 children, with more than 14,245 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health on Sunday.

The ministry has also received 1,450 calls concerning missing people believed to be under the rubble, 800 of whom are children.

Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has damaged half of the besieged enclave’s residential units and displaced 70 percent of the population, Palestinian officials have announced on Sunday.

According to the local government’s media office, around 165,000 residential units were damaged, with at least 20,000 of them completely destroyed or made unfit for habitation.

Israel’s military has also ordered 1.1 million people living in Northern Gaza to evacuate their homes, amid signs it is set to ramp up its offensive.

The bombing, as well as enforced displacement orders by the army, has pushed 1.5 million people out of their homes.

The United Nations has warned it is “impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences” as hospitals in the besieged territory are “on the brink of collapse”.

Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth, where some 2 million people live in an area of 140 square miles. It has been almost completely cut off from the rest of the world for nearly 17 years. More than half of its population lives in poverty and is food insecure, with nearly 80% of its population relying on humanitarian assistance.

Human rights groups have stressed that depriving an occupied population of basic necessities is a war crime. Palestinian health officials have warned Gaza is rapidly running out of water and electricity, and the population faces severe shortages of food and medicine. They say hospitals in the besieged territory are under constant bombardment and facing imminent shutdown due to a lack of fuel.

Five UN agencies have warned that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is “catastrophic”, calling for more international help as conditions deteriorate in the densely populated besieged enclave.

“Gaza was a desperate humanitarian situation before the most recent hostilities,” the UN agencies said in a joint statement on Saturday, adding, “It is now catastrophic. The world must do more.”

“More than 1.6 million people in Gaza are in critical need of humanitarian aid,” added the statement, which was signed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN children’s agency (UNICEF), the World Food Program (WFP), the UN development agency (UNDP), and the world body’s population fund, UNFPA.

Tehran says the history of the apartheid regime is full of assassinations, massacre, torture and killing of Palestinian kids, and described Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities and massacre of Palestinian women and children as indicative of the destitute of Zionists. Iranian officials say the Tel Aviv regime has been struggling for more than 70 years to exit its identity crisis which has been mixed with genocide, plunder, forced displacement and scores of other inhumane moves.

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