The spokesman made the comment on Sunday, three days after the UN Special Committee found that the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza is “consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians there.”

“The UN Special Committee's finding that Israel’s war on #Gaza is #genocide is no less than a reconfirmation of what has already been repeatedly said by other authoritative UN bodies”, Baghaei said on X social media platform.

“What is new though, is UK's outrageous denial of an ongoing ostentatious genocide”, the spokesman further said, attaching to his post an infographic picture showing the number of Palestinians killed and injured in Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on October 7, 2023.

“The UK foreign secretary's denial of genocide in Gaza is simply in line with his government's policy of persistent provision of lethal weapons and political support to the genocidal apartheid regime which makes UK complicit in the carnage and entails its international responsibility due to failure to abide by its international legal obligations under the Genocide Convention”, Baghaei said.

“This acquiescence of genocide is extremely appalling and a reminiscent of deeply rooted colonial mentality that is dangerously coming to the fore in Europe through systemic anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia”, he added.