TEHRAN- The Israeli regime should face accountability for the four main crimes it committed against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip during its most recent massive military campaign, according to the deputy foreign minister of Iran.
The comments were made on Monday at the 28th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague, the Netherlands, by Reza Najafi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs.
“During the past eight weeks, the Israeli regime has committed all four core international crimes, namely genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression repeatedly and concurrently,” he said.
Nejafi went on to add, “This entails the international responsibility of the Israeli regime and its supporters as well as the individual criminal responsibility of all those who ordered and committed such crimes or facilitated, aided and abetted their commission, including by providing the required means.”
All those accountable for the atrocities against the Gazan people will be brought to justice, stressed the top Iranian diplomat.
He reiterated that, in addition to these figures, the “horrifying” reports and “heart-breaking” images of Israel’s barbaric invasion once again demonstrated, clearly and undeniably, the regime’s “murderous” nature, as it possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), including chemical weapons in its stockpiles.
Israel’s atrocities, Najafi stressed, together with a regime minister’s proposal to drop even a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip, demonstrated once and for all the grave risk that Israeli chemical weapons pose to regional and global peace and security.
He emphasized that every effort should be made to expedite the Chemical Weapons Convention’s universalization, especially by pressuring the Israeli regime to ratify it immediately and without any more delay.
Israel is the sole possessor of nukes in West Asia. The regime, which pursues a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its nuclear weapons, is estimated to possess 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.
Israel has not ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), in contrast to Iran, and it continues to conduct unrestricted nuclear operations with backing from the U.S. and European nations.
Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, more than 15,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed only in Gaza while over 6,000 are still missing and more than 36,000 are wounded, Najafi said, adding that over 70 percent of those killed, missing or wounded are women and children.
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