TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry declared in a statement on Friday that the brutal massacre of the people in the Gaza Strip clearly proves the “terrorist and inhumane nature of the Zionist regime”.

“Silence of the international community and the support of the United States and other Western countries for those crimes, is clearly in contrast with their claim on human rights,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini regretted.
Hosseini added such a silence “will further encourage the Zionist regime to commit more crimes against the oppressed Palestinian nation.”
Hosseini strongly condemned Israel’s relentless killing of defenseless people of Gaza and said the “inactivity” of the UN Security Council in face of the Gaza events is regrettable.
The spokesman urged the Islamic countries to make a serious effort to stop the Zionist regime’s crimes.
17 Palestinians, one a cameraman for an international news agency, were killed on Wednesday as Israeli troops backed by helicopters stormed into the Gaza Strip, AFP reported.
Fadel Shana, 23, a Reuters cameraman, was critically wounded when a missile hit his vehicle in the central Gaza Strip. He died after being taken to hospital.
Shana was driving near the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, where at least nine Palestinians were killed in an earlier air strike, all of them civilians