TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Minister on Tuesday sent separate letters about the recent events in the Gaza Strip to the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the chief of the UN, the president of the UN Security Council, and the foreign ministers of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations warning that Israeli actions in the besieged Gaza enclave have raised the alarm for “the most unprecedented humanitarian disaster of this century.”

Hossein Amir Abdollahian also warned of repercussions of the Zionist regime’s ongoing aggressive moves in the holy month of Ramadan against the people of Gaza. 

Abdollahian censured the continued inability of the UN Security Council to stop the war in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as the United States prevents the council from taking effective steps through repeated use of the “right of veto”.

Iran’s top diplomat noted, “With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan and under these circumstances we witness the continuation of the United Nations Security Council’s failure to stop the war against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in Palestine amid the United States’ open and deliberate obstruction of any effective move by the Council through extremely resorting to the right of veto, it is absolutely necessary and incumbent upon the international community to find practical ways and take serious measures to support the Palestinian people, immediately stop the military strikes against the Gaza Strip, and get it out of the current dire situation.”

He went on to add, “The continuation of the genocide in the Gaza Strip and Rafah and war crimes in the West Bank, as well as preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid and food to the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime and the regime’s implementation of starvation of the people living in Gaza with the goal of continuing the genocide and the destruction of women and children have sounded the alarm for the most unprecedented humanitarian disaster in this century.”

“It is now evidently clear that one of the dangerous goals of the Israeli regime in completely blockading the Gaza Strip and preventing the delivery of immediate and sufficient humanitarian aid, is to set the stage for social and civil collapse, and to ruin all signs of Palestinian life and identity, and to forcibly displace those living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and making them migrate to the neighboring countries and this approach proves that the criminal regime is deliberately pursuing the policy of total annihilation of the Palestinian nation and identity,” the letters read.

The top diplomat also stated that Tehran vehemently condemns the actions of the Israeli regime in dividing the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, forcing people to migrate from the northern part of the strip by starvation, planning attacks on Rafah, preventing people from going back to their residential areas and hindering UN relief organizations from reaching all of the region’s residents.

He emphasized that the UN and other international institutions had an imperative duty to put an end to the catastrophe.

“After the slaughter of over 31,000 Palestinian people during the past months, by preventing the delivery of immediate humanitarian aid and food to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli regime is now seeking to pursue the mass, gradual and painful killing of the remaining people in Gaza. Hence, in this critical situation, Your Excellency, as the Secretary General of the United Nations, are expected to prevent the humanitarian disaster of the contemporary century from unfolding by once again invoking Article 99 of the United Nations Charter and other possible mechanisms.”

At the conclusion, he highlighted that “on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, by warning about the open genocide of a nation, I insist once again on the necessity to take effective measures in order to stop the occupying Israeli regime from any possible aggression in Holy Al-Quds against Palestinian worshipers during the holy month of Ramadan.”

The holy month of Ramadan began in the Gaza Strip on Monday. With a population of about 2.3 million, the coastal strip has been continuously bombarded for more than five months by the invading Israeli regime. 

Israel had repeatedly turned down requests from the international community, charities, and rights groups for a humanitarian truce before the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

After Hamas carried out an operation in southern Israel in early October last year in response to Israel’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinians, the occupation regime has started a genocidal campaign in Gaza that has so far resulted in more than 31,000 deaths – chiefly women and children - and 73,000 injuries. 

Additionally, the Palestinians residing there are denied access to food, water, power, gasoline, and other necessities.