Iran decries Israeli aggression on Syria as ‘war crime’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli regime’s latest round of aggression on the Syrian territory, calling on the United Nations Security Council to take urgent measures to stop the illegal entity’s “war crimes” in the Arab country.

In a fresh bout of ruthless onslaught on Syrian soil, the Israeli regime has over the past days targeted various areas in and around the capital Damascus, not least Mazzeh district which is home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices.

The Israeli strikes on the Mazzeh neighborhood killed 13 Syrian people on Thursday, while an attack on the outskirts of Damascus killed 10 Palestinians, among them members of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement who had taken refuge there.

“The expansion of the Zionist regime’s aggression and crimes to the neighboring countries and the repeated and blatant violation of the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of the government of the Syrian Arab Republic are considered flagrant incursion as per the United Nations Charter and require the urgent action of the United Nations Security Council to stop the onslaught and hold the Zionist aggressor regime accountable,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said.

The spokesman warned of the dire consequences of Israel’s continued aggression against civilian infrastructure and the mass killing of innocent people, including women and children, saying such actions are in flagrant breach of international and humanitarian law.

Underlining that arms suppliers to the Israeli regime are complicit and accomplices in the crimes of the occupying entity, Baghaei said, “The people of the region and the Islamic Ummah regard America as the largest weapons and political supporter of the Zionist regime as well as its partner and accomplice in the crimes.”

Twin Israeli airstrikes target Syrian capital & suburb, kill over dozen people

Twin Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 people and injured more than a dozen others in the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus and in the outskirts of the Syrian capital.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman offered his condolences to the Syrian government and nation, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, and the families of the martyrs, and wished a speedy recovery for those injured in the Israeli raids.

The regime’s attacks have intensified against the backdrop of an ever-expanding war on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon.

Israel’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has since October last year killed more than 43,760 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 103,490 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

At least 3,287 people have also been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the past year, with the vast majority in the past seven weeks. Another 14,222 have been wounded, mostly women and children.

Spearheaded by Iran, the Axis of Resistance has over the past year launched hundreds of missiles at the Israeli-occupied territories in support of Gaza and Lebanon, not least since the regime killed top resistance leaders, including Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

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