TEHRAN - The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday that the people in the world want the Israeli leaders to stand trial for the genocide they have been committing against Palestinians since October last year.

“If those claiming to be defenders of human rights value humanity and human lives, now is the time to act; tomorrow is too late. The human society is thirsty for humanity and justice more than ever and demands the trial of the Zionist regime’s criminal leaders,” Nasser Kanaani said.

Kanaani drew a comparison between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  and Adolf Hitler of Germany, warning that history is being repeated.

“About eight decades after the Nuremberg trials, history is once again witnesses to the emergence of another Hitler; a criminal that continues the merciless genocide and killing of innocent Palestinian women and children in the shadow of the international community's inaction,” Kanaani said.