Iran Slams West for Complicity in Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Children
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli regime for carrying out the deadliest massacre of children in decades in Gaza, slamming Western countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, for enabling a policy of “genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Tuesday that Israel had killed over 180 Palestinian children in Gaza in a single day, calling it the largest child massacre since the Nakba in 1948.
In a post on X, Baqaei said that Israel’s criminal actions were part of a “systematic policy, executed with the genocidal intent of ethnic cleansing” aimed at the “colonial erasure” of the Palestinian people.
“With the full complicity and unwavering support of the United States, UK and certain other Western state—and emboldened by the UNSC’s inaction—the Israeli regime feels absolute impunity to keep perpetrating the most atrocious crimes, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide,” Baqaei wrote in his post.
He also criticized the United Nations and human rights organizations for their “indifference,” arguing that their inaction exacerbates the suffering of Palestinian children.
“The killing and torture of innocent Palestinian children have left deep wounds on the conscience of humanity,” Baqaei wrote. “It is high time that that the world came together, stood up against the gravest injustice of our modern time، ended the impunity for heinous crimes against children and kept the genocidal regime and its enablers accountable for the most serious crimes of international concern it is committing in cold blood in Gaza and the West Bank.”
His remarks come as the Zionist regime continues to violate a peace agreement in Gaza, where the Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on March 18, killing at least 730 people and injuring nearly 1,200 others despite a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement signed in January.
