TEHRAN – A senior Iranian military official has warned it is possible that “other actors” get involved in support of the people in the Gaza Strip if Israel doesn’t stop its dreadful crimes in the coastal strip.

Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, made the warning in telephone conversations with the defense ministers of Qatar and Russia on Thursday.

“The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes and the direct support and backing from certain countries would further complicate the situation and could make other actors intervene in this arena,” General Bagheri told Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to Tasnim.

In phone talks with the Qatari defense minister, Bagheri also emphasized that silence by the Islamic world in the face of the Israeli atrocities is unjustifiable.

In his two calls, the Iranian military chief said it is necessary that the international community take an immediate step to halt the Israeli massacre in Gaza and send humanitarian aid to the besieged people.

The occupation regime of Israel has cut off water, food, medicine and fuel to Gaza since October 7, when the Hamas resistance group launched a surprise attack on Israel inside the occupied territories.

The senior general also censured the U.S. for commanding the Israeli criminal operations against Gazans, calling for a ban on the deployment of arms and equipment from the United States’ regional bases to the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza killed 307 Palestinians in the 24-hours up to Thursday evening, the UN reports, bringing the death toll since Israel declared war on the Palestinian enclave to 3,785 – of whom at least 1,524 were children and 1,444 women.

The actual death toll in Gaza is likely to be far higher as hundreds more victims remain buried under the rubble of buildings levelled by the Israeli onslaught, which is nearing the end of its second week.