Zarif: “Israeli” Crimes Must Be Designated as Genocide, Resistance Only Language 

By Staff, Agencies  

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for the formation of a professional international watchdog to monitor and report on the Zionist crimes against Palestinians. 

He further stressed that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC] must recognize the “Israeli” criminal acts as genocide.

Zarif, who is in Italy, took part in an online emergency meeting of the OIC, held to discuss the latest developments in Palestine and a surge in the Zionist regime’s atrocities against Palestinians in Al-Quds and Gaza.

In his address, delivered from the Embassy of Iran in Rome, the top Iranian diplomat said the OIC members should extend the jurisdiction of their national tribunals to include the prosecution of criminals perpetrating war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the Palestinian occupied territories.

“We are facing blatant and systematic violations of human rights, humanitarian law and international law,” Zarif stated.

In parallel, he lamented the fact that “Innocent men, women and children are being massacred by the deadliest and most sophisticated weapons. Homes are being demolished while their residents are trapped inside. Whatever remains of the infrastructure in Gaza—including power and water supply—is effectively destroyed.”

“The massacre of Palestinian children today follows the purported normalization,” he said, noting that 
“This criminal and genocidal regime has once again proven that friendly gestures only aggravate its atrocities.”

To the Islamic countries, Zarif said:  “Make no mistake: ‘Israel’ only understands the language of resistance and the people of Palestine are fully entitled to the right to defend themselves and to defy the bullying of this racist regime.”