Iran Condemns Israeli Minister’s Comments on Starving Gazans

“The finance minister of the Zionist regime has labeled the massacre of two million Palestinians due to the man-made hunger in return for the release of the captives of the regime ‘justified and moral’,” Nasser Kanaani said in a post on his X account on Friday.

“The remarks by this member of the criminal Zionist gang are only a sort of public declaration and confession, as the world has witnessed the Zionist regime’s actions on the ground in the past ten months in the genocide and massacre of innocent women, children and civilians in Gaza through bombing and also man-made famine and hunger,” he said.

“The world must have understood that the Zionist criminal gang will obey international laws only in the face of pressure and decisive and deterrent moves, otherwise, it knows no limits for its odious crimes and actions,” Kanaani added.

“These abominable and horrifying remarks are strongly condemned and deserve international prosecution from a moral and humanitarian point of view and provisions of international law, but Europe should fulfill its international, moral and humanitarian responsibilities against the Zionist regime instead of verbally condemning these statements and end its political and military support for that criminal regime and should not be satisfied with condemnation without taking any measures,” the Iranian spokesman added.

The Zionist regime’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a speech on Monday that Israel had no choice but to send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The far-right minister also suggested that starving Gaza's population of more than 2 million Palestinians "might be just and moral".

"It's not possible in today's global reality to manage a war — no one will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though that might be just and moral until they return the hostages," he said.

At least 39,699 Palestinian people have been killed and 91,722 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023.