Iran’s foreign minister says continuous Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip have turned the entire region into a “powder keg,” warning that “anything will be possible” if such atrocities continue.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in an interview with the American public radio NPR that was published on Friday. The minister is in New York City to attend an emergency UN General Assembly meeting on Palestine.
The warning comes as the Israeli regime continues bombarding the densely populated Gaza Strip, adding to the miseries of the poor community hit by 17 years of Israeli blockade.
The fatalities in Gaza since October 7, when Israel launched its aerial campaign, has crossed 7,000. The regime has also imposed a total blockade on the region, depriving millions of people there of food, fuel, water and electricity.
The raids started after an unprecedented military offensive, dubbed Al-Aqsa Storm Operation was launched by Hamas-led resistance forces against occupied territories. Palestinians said the attack, in which some 1,400 Israeli forces and settlers were killed, was a response to increased Israeli violence against Palestinians and the desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque by occupiers.
Amir-Abdollahian said the region can’t afford to stay silent as Israel keeps massacring women and children in the strip.
“But you know the situation remains complicated. It’s difficult for our region to tolerate the fact that 7,000 civilians have been killed as the result of the bombardments of the Israeli regime. This is the image that we’re now seeing in the region and because of the continuation of crimes of the Israeli regime, the whole region has been turned into a powder keg.”
The minister said his discussions with Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders in recent weeks show they “have their finger on the trigger” and are ready to make their own decisions to act against the Israeli regime and its allies.
