‘Largest child massacre’: Iran decries Israel’s child-killing spree in Gaza, US complicity

Iran has robustly condemned the Israeli regime’s mass killing of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, describing it as part of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing aimed at wiping out the Palestinian identity.

In a Tuesday post on X, former Twitter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei decried the regime’s massacre of hundreds of Palestinian children in a single day, calling it the largest child massacre since the 1948 Nakba, when Western-backed Israeli forces expelled Palestinians from their homeland.

“The global public now clearly recognizes that the occupying regime’s slaughter of children is a systematic policy, executed with the genocidal intent of ethnic cleansing and the ‘colonial erasure’ of the Palestinian people,” he lamented.

The official also condemned the silence of international organizations, including the United Nations, in the face of the deadly atrocities.

“The killing and torture of innocent Palestinian children have left deep wounds on the conscience of humanity, and the indifference of the UN and relevant human rights bodies only adds insult to those injuries,” he added.

Baghaei held the United States, Tel Aviv’s most supportive ally, the United Kingdom, and other Western backers of the regime responsible for enabling the regime's bloodletting and destruction.

“With the full complicity and unwavering support of the United States, UK, and certain other Western states—and emboldened by the inaction of the UN Security Council—the Israeli regime feels absolute impunity to keep perpetrating the most atrocious crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,” he stated.

His remarks came amid reports that Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 200 children in Gaza in recent days, a number confirmed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The escalation followed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that the aggression against Gaza, which the regime has escalated since resuming its genocidal war on the territory earlier this month, was “just beginning.”

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Human rights groups have repeatedly highlighted the genocidal features of the military barbarity, namely deliberate targeting of civilians, including women and children.

“It is high time that the world came together, stood up against the gravest injustice of our modern time, ended impunity for heinous crimes against children, and kept the genocidal regime and its enablers accountable for the most serious crimes of international concern,” Baghaei said.

Including the youngsters, the war has killed over 50,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them women and children, since October 2023.

Despite global condemnation, the regime continues to enjoy military and diplomatic backing from its Western allies, particularly Washington, which has vetoed multiple UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire that the regime would abide by.

Observers, meanwhile, caution that the Israeli genocidal campaign sought not only to target the Palestinian resistance, but to permanently displace Palestinian territories’ indigenous population, a strategy reminiscent of the Nakba.

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