TEHRAN- Following hundreds of Palestinian women’s deaths and injuries in Israel’s ongoing genocidal attack on Gaza, Iran’s top human rights official has demanded that Israel should be expelled from the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day on Friday, Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, made the comments in three identical letters to the UN secretary general, the president of the UN Economic and Social Council, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Alluding to Israel’s ruthless crimes in Gaza, Gharibabadi said “What is more deplorable… is the situation of women and girls.”

He pointed out that seventy percent of the victims of the Israeli murderous onslaught on the besieged strip are women and children.

Gharibabadi mentioned several UN reports that demonstrated the terrible effects of the conflict on Gazan women and girls in his letters.

“Unfortunately, this regime, with such a dark history, is a member of the [UN] Commission on the Status of Women that -according to the declared objective- was formed to establish gender equality and empower women, and whose one of its important tasks is to accelerate the fulfillment of the needs of women all over the world.”

Gharibabadi said Israel’s “continued membership [of the commission] is a mockery of human rights principles and international humanitarian law, and a humiliation to the [UN] Commission on the Status of Women and its objectives and missions”, calling on the three senior UN officials to oust this regime, which he described as “criminal, child-killer and murderer of women and girls”, from the commission.

After the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, carried out the unexpected Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying force in reaction to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians, Israel declared war on Gaza on October 7.

In addition, the Tel Aviv regime has placed a “complete siege” on the region, depriving the more than two million Palestinian residents of food, water, fuel, and power.

The upspring regime has murdered at least 31,000 Palestinians and wounded 72,402 others since the war began.

Under the debris in Gaza, many more people are reported missing and feared dead.

Also, on the occasion of World Children’s Day, Iran’s top human rights official attacked governments and international organizations for failing to protect children in Gaza, where the Israeli regime has killed thousands of children.

“If they consider the children in Gaza to be part of the world’s children, it would be good for them to recognize the right of these oppressed children to a childhood, to continue to live and to grow,” wrote Gharibabadi in a post in Farsi on the X platform.

Gharibabadi serves as the secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, a subsidiary of the Iranian judiciary.

During the Gaza conflict, the body has been active in a campaign to expose human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli regime.

During a weekly news conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that the international community’s growing dissatisfaction with the conflict and desire for its end is seen by the mounting resistance to Israeli crimes in Gaza and the U.S. government’s support of the regime’s wrongdoings.

He also said that the U.S. and Israel have been forewarned by the resistance groups in the region that they would not stand idly by while the Israeli regime carrying out its atrocities on the Palestinian people in the beleaguered Gaza Strip.

“The actions of the Zionist regime spark a reaction by the resistance groups in the region. They (the groups) had repeatedly warned the U.S. and the Zionists that if these attacks continue, they will not remain silent,” he said.

“The U.S. and the Zionist regime must understand that they can escape the situation only by stopping the war completely and immediately, allowing the dispatch of humanitarian aid [to the coastal enclave], and ending the forced displacement of the people of Gaza.”

Additionally, the Iranian diplomat asked the U.S. administration to cease supporting Israeli atrocities in Gaza and focus on international security and peace rather than putting pressure on others to take action.