In a post on X on Friday, Baqaei wrote, “Neutrality in times of war is not indifference. True! But war and genocide are inherently different; ‘neutrality in times of war’ cannot be applied in times of an undisguised genocide that has been raging on for the past 2 years in the open.”
The spokesperson underlined that the ongoing situation must not be treated as an ordinary conflict. “Genuine humanitarianism calls for moral courage to explicitly abhor atrocity crimes and demand accountability for the criminals,” he added.
Baquaei’s remarks came in response to a post by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Albanese emphasized the importance of neutrality in wartime for organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) but warned against moral blindness in cases of systemic crimes.
“When, under the fog of war, a decades-old apartheid system commits genocide and other crimes, reducing its victims to ‘one side’ risks sliding into cross-eyed humanitarianism,” Albanese wrote.
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