Iran: UNSC resolution on more Gaza aid deliveries 'positive but insufficient'

Iran has described the recent United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at increasing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip a “positive but insufficient step” in addressing the desperate needs of besieged Palestinians in the territory.

“It is very regrettable that after 77 days of frenzied attacks by the Zionist regime against defenseless people in the Gaza Strip, the US administration still prevents the adoption of a binding resolution in the Security Council to stop the war, war crimes and genocide of the Zionist regime in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said on Saturday.

He said the dispatch of aid consignments to Gaza is practically impossible amid ongoing Israeli bombings and military strikes in Gaza for the past 77 days, where more than 60% of residential buildings and urban infrastructure have been destroyed.

Kan’ani said remarks by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres following the vote also attest to this bitter reality.

“The adoption of Resolution 2720 does not absolve the UN Security Council of its responsibilities. The US administration is still primarily responsible for the continuation of brutal attacks and war crimes by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,” he added.

UN Security Council passes resolution demanding more Gaza aid deliveries

The resolution calls for "unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" and the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities."

On Friday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on the ongoing Israeli onslaught against Gaza, demanding increased aid deliveries to the besieged region but stopping short of calling for an immediate halt to the genocide.  

The watered-down resolution demanded all sides in the conflict allow the “safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale.”

It also called for the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" but it did not call for an immediate end to fighting.

The vote in the 15-member council was 13-0 with the United States and Russia abstaining.

Tehran to host international conference on Palestine

Separately, Kan’ani announced that the Iranian capital of Tehran will host an international conference on Saturday to muster support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and force the Israeli regime into ending its atrocious campaign against the coastal sliver.

He said government officials, prominent political and religious figures, intellectuals and media activists from over 50 countries will take part in the one-day event.

The participants will weigh plans to drum up support for Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, mount pressures on the Tel Aviv regime to stop its military strikes on Gaza and lift the blockade on the enclave, and provide an impetus for the delivery of international humanitarian aid to Palestinians, Kan’ani added.

The spokesman said the conference comes as part of the Islamic Republic’s constant diplomatic efforts in support of the Palestinian people’s resistance.

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“An immediate end to the apartheid Zionist regime’s war crimes and genocide of the oppressed Palestinian nation is a demand made by all right-seekers, advocates of justice, and awakened human consciences across the world,” Kan’ani emphasized.

The relentless Israeli strikes against Gaza have killed at least 20,057 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza. Another 53,320 individuals have been wounded as well.

Experts say that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is now considered one of the most lethal and devastating in recent times.

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