Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri lashed out at the international community for its deadly silence over the Israeli crimes in Gaza, and said words and statements cannot save the innocent Palestinians from the Zionists' hands.

"The cruel massacre of the Gaza people is being carried out in a situation that the countries which claim to be advocates of human rights have very easily ignored these crimes and even supported the criminals," Jahangiri said in the Western city of Kermanshah on Monday.

"Unfortunately, the international community has chosen the path of silence and has just sufficed to issuing some statements in support for the oppressed people in Palestine and Gaza," he added.

Jahangiri said the western states' silence has emboldened the Israeli regime to even intensify its anti-humane atrocities against the Palestinians.

In relevant remarks in July, Iran's Vice-President for Legal Affairs Elham Aminzadeh demanded international circles, particularly the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, to break their deadly silence on the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian people.

"When a criminal regime commits genocide, occasionally the international tribunals adopt very good mechanisms; however, sometimes they keep silent and become complicit in crimes against humanity with inaction," Aminzadeh said.

She pointed out that war criminals in the former Yugoslavia were brought to justice by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, asking the international tribunals to do the same with the Israeli leaders.

"Surely, repetition of the attacks on Gazans is the outcome of the international tribunals' inaction to the Israeli leaders' brutalities against the enclaves' civilians in last 10 years," the official underscored.

Israel has been pounding the blockaded Gaza for 29 consecutive days, killing at least 1,865 people and injuring more than 10,000 others.

Four out of every five Palestinians killed during Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza have been civilians, including hundreds of women and children.


 

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