Iraq calls for stopping the war in Gaza, accelerating urgent aid provision

INA - BAGHDAD

Minister of Transport Razzaq Muhaibas Al-Saadawi conveyed On Saturday, a speech by PM Muhammed S. Al-Sudani at the Tehran International Conference on Palestine.

“Al-Saadawi participated, at the head of a high-ranking Iraqi delegation, in the consultative political conference on Palestine held in Tehran. The conference was attended by the President of the Islamic Republic, Ibrahim Raisi, and the participation of prominent political and religious figures, thinkers, and media known from more than 50 countries around the world," said the ministry in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

A-Saadawi delivered a speech by PM Al-Sudani, during the conference held at the Saadabad Historical Cultural Complex in Tehran, in which he stressed that “what is happening in Gaza cannot be limited to expressions of condemnation, as the scenes of killing and massacres against the people of Gaza are ethnic cleansing crimes."

“The United Nations Secretariat is seeking to draw the attention of the Security Council to the fact that the situation in Gaza has begun to turn into a disaster,” the speech included, stressing that “the usurping entity is protected by major powers that have abandoned their humanitarian and moral responsibilities.”

Iraq's statement affirmed, "The countries that have always raised human rights slogans, today force the people of Gaza to defend themselves, acquit the real killer, and criminalize the victim. Our government has called, from the first day of the aggression, for an end to the tragedies and calamities that the people of Gaza experience every day."

The speech called for “taking firm stances against Zionist persistence. The official Iraqi position toward the Palestinian issue is based on internal political and popular support from all Iraqis.”

"The plight of Palestine and its cause live in the conscience of all Iraqis ever since it fell captive into the hands of the usurpers,” included in the speech, stressing that “the ongoing tragedy in Palestine requires all Arabs and Muslims to unite to form a large pressure bloc in international forums to put an end to the Zionist crimes.”

PM's speech highlighted, “Our duty is to support Palestine and also affirm the right of the Palestinians to establish their state on the entire Palestinian territory, with Holy Jerusalem as its capital," calling on "Arab and Islamic countries to boycott and besiege this entity, work to criminalize it and expose its brutal practices in all international forums."

The speech concluded with a demand to "stop the war in Gaza and accelerate the provision of urgent aid to the Palestinians who are living today under difficult humanitarian conditions with the advent of winter."