Iran urges UNSC to take quick action to stop Gaza crisis

New York, Dec 28, IRNA - Iran urged the United Nations Security Council to take urgent and
meaningful action to force the Israeli regime to stop its atrocities
and crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

In a letter to President of the UN Security Council Neven Jurica,
Iran's Ambassador to the UN Eshagh Al Habib urged the body to help
alleviate the sufferings and pain of the people in the region.

"The world community is yet again witnessing, in outrage and pain, the
horrendous terrorist acts of the Israeli regime against the innocent
Palestinian people in the Gaza strip," said the ambassador.

He said that the ongoing situation in Gaza has shocked the world again
as the "irresponsible and criminal regime, after having starved a
whole population, is now taking its pre-planned and wicked ploy in
slaughtering them."
The letter added that the Israeli regime's brutal terrorist acts and
criminal policies as well as its massacring of hundreds of defenseless
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were all another example of the
Zionists plot to slaughter innocent people in the occupied lands.

Hundreds of people have been killed. Many of them were children on
their way back home from school, and others were innocent men and
women who tried to survive under an unprecedented malicious
humanitarian crisis imposed on them by the Israeli regime, or run out
of their homes to save their kids from the Israeli savagery, added the
ambassador in his letter.

He added, "All these crimes that are among the most horrendous crimes
ever committed in the history of mankind, are happening while some of
those permanently seated at the Security Council have even fallen
short of calling on the Israeli regime to stop its crimes against
humanity.

"The same powers, by incapacitating the Council to take any action
against Israeli crimes in the past, are undoubtedly sharing
responsibility in this new round of Israeli crimes against humanity."
Al Habib further argued that the Council's inaction towards the
Israeli brutalities in the past has emboldened the regime in its
atrocities and crimes against the Palestinian people.

"For so many months, more than 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip
have been starved and deliberately kept deprived, by the Israeli
regime, of the most basic services and goods that they need for
survival, and now they are being eliminated before the eyes of the
international community while the Security Council has remained idle
and practically indifferent," said the ambassador.

He noted, "Inaction is not an option. Business as usual where the
Council has been prevented from taking any action to counter the
Israeli crimes, and has been put to work only when and where the
interests of a few powers require, should be ended.

"The Israeli regime is making mockery of the whole international
community and of the Security Council. The Security Council needs to
act to put an end to this Israeli impunity and to these atrocious
crimes," he stressed.

Al Habib's letter was circulated as a Council document.


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