Official: Israel Should Face Justice for Committing War Crimes
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian judiciary official said Israel should face trial at an international criminal court for the blatant war crimes it is committing in Palestine.
“The Zionist regime’s war crimes are obvious and an international court should be held immediately against them (Israelis),” Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said in a televised interview on Monday night.
He explained that Israel’s crimes in Palestine are not confined to occupation of territories, but the regime has also besieged the Gaza Strip in a move that constitutes an international crime.
There is no need to set up a fact-finding committee to probe the Israeli atrocities in Palestine, since “the truth is obviously clear”, Larijani underscored.
Pointing to cases of Israeli war crimes is Palestine, the Iranian official said the Tel Aviv regime is devastating infrastructure in Gaza, slaughtering women and children, and even targets the UN-run schools in the blockaded territory.
Israel has been pounding the Gaza Strip for four weeks. The Israeli air, sea and land strikes have so far killed over 1,800 people and injured around 9,400 others in the besieged enclave.
Since beginning of the brutal military offensive against civilians in Gaza, Israeli forces have at least three times targeted UN-run schools where Gazans had sheltered.
On Sunday, an Israeli air strike killed 10 people and wounded about 30 in a UN-run school in the southern Gaza Strip.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the attack as a “moral outrage and a criminal act” and called for those responsible for the “gross violation of international humanitarian law” to be held accountable.
