The top diplomat made the comment on Saturday during phone talks with his Luxembourgian counterpart Jean Asselborn as the two discussed the ongoing Israeli regime’s war in the Gaza Strip where more than 4,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since the conflict began on October 7 when resistance movement Hamas launched its unprecedented Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the regime.
Amirabdollahian blamed the killing of the civilians in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there on extremist policies of Israeli prime minister Benajamin Netanyahu.
The foreign minister said that Palestinian resistance groups are acting based on international law in the face of the Israeli occupation, adding that recent Israeli crimes against the civilian population in Gaza show the Zionist regime’s weakness against Palestinian resistance forces.
Luxembourg’s foreign minister said that he is aware of the crisis in Gaza, expressing hope that the conflict comes to an end as soon as possible and a political solution is prioritized.
He also said that the active and constructive role the Islamic Republic has always played in the region can help return peace and tranquility there.
Iran has stepped up diplomatic efforts in the past two weeks with the aim of supporting the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian holding phone conversations with officials of different countries, both in the region and beyond.
Last week, Amirabdollahian also took a tour of four regional countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Qatar in line with those efforts.
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