TEHRAN- The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, has sternly denounced the Israeli airstrikes that have killed scores of Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

In a statement on Monday night, he censured the deadly “criminal airstrikes” the Tel Aviv regime has launched on residential areas in Rafah.  

Iran’s top diplomat also cautioned that the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression and the threat of a ground offensive against that region could instigate another wave of humanitarian catastrophe and war crime against the beleaguered people of Palestine.

The strikes conducted by the Israeli regime have infringed as well as derailed the ongoing ceasefire talks, contravening the ruling issued by the International Court of Justice.

He went on to add that the strikes on Rafah reveal the sinister Zionist intentions to violate all international legal norms.

Kanaani also warned of the dire ramifications of the Israeli ruthless savagery in the Gaza Strip and expressed serious concerns regarding the growing genocidal crimes against the Gazans.  

The spokesman stressed that the time is numbered for the U.S. and other Western allies of Israel to rein in the Zionist officials’ maniacal behavior and act urgently to thwart the massacre of defenseless Palestinians in a bid to prove their sincerity in expressing concern about regional security and stability.

Such an invasion, Kanaani said, serves as “a proof to sinister intentions of Zionists who have repeatedly violated all the international legal norms with the purpose of discrediting them.”

Additionally, he called on the international bodies, governments and the world’s public opinion given the alarming consequences of any Israeli military action in Rafah for the conditions of residents and refugees in that area.

International organizations, above all the United Nations, have a responsibility to stop the continuation of the Israeli regime’s onslaught on Gaza and prevent the deterioration of the human catastrophe, he concluded.

The Israeli attacks on Rafah on Monday killed over 100 people. The strikes hit 14 houses and three mosques in Rafah.

About 1.4 million Palestinians, or more than half the population of Gaza, have crowded into Rafah to escape Israeli bombardment, which has reduced much of the rest of the enclave to ruins.