TEHRAN – In a diplomatic move on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragut makes urgent calls with counterparts from Pakistan, Egypt, Qatar, Iraq and Tunisia, calling for immediate collective action to defeat the “genocide” of the Israeli regime’s “genocide.”
Similar talks with Saudi Arabia and Bangladeshi officials are followed amid the UN warning that more than a million Gazas are facing catastrophic conditions of hunger while Israel systematically blocks aid.
The Araguchi consultations focused on mobilizing organisations of Islamic cooperation (OICs) for emergency sessions to coordinate a unified response.
In a call with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Ishaq Dar, Araguchi, who was now the chairman of the UN Security Council and chairman of his Egyptian Badr Abdellat, denounced Israel’s “deliberate stripping of water, food and medicine” as a tool for extinction.
“The global community must end this immunity,” he argued, urging the DAR to utilize the role of Islamabad’s Security Council for binding measures.
By top Egyptian diplomats, Aragut warned that Israel’s plans to annex the West Bank would constitute a “roadmap for the erasure of the Palestinian colonial era.” Both ministers agreed: Without decisive intervention, a local catastrophe is looming.
Similar urgency has informed discussions with Qatar Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. There, Araguchi emphasized that “starved civilians are war crimes.” He demanded that Israeli officials face prosecution for the atrocities.
Huad Hussein of Iraq and Nabil Amamer of Tunisia repeated the corridors of immediate aid. Araghchi pushed all his counterparts: “Islamic countries must deploy all legal, political and humanitarian means to stop this massacre.”
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Since October 2023, the Israeli regime’s blockade and bombing have claimed the lives of more than 59,700 Palestinians.
However, this figure does not explain additional deaths, directly or indirectly, from Israeli actions, such as those still buried under the tiled rub or individuals who died due to the systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure.
Additionally, hospitals have reported hunger deaths over the age of 115 since March, including infants and adolescents who have died from complications from malnutrition.
This made it even worse, and Israel’s first pack since March suffocated 99% of the aid. The UN agency has confirmed that 470,000 Gazans are currently facing “devastating” (IPC Phase 5) hunger. Acute malnutrition among children has skyrocketed 300% since May.
Meanwhile, 97% of Gaza’s water is suitable for human consumption. UNICEF reports that children cue eight hours a day due to contaminated puddles. Families survive on just 3% of their daily minimum water needs. The intentional destruction of Israeli reservoirs and desalinated plants has disrupted the water system.
Despite global protests, Israel has been implementing almost lockdowns since March, focusing on minimal aid through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) supported by the US.
The program will crowd crowds in a tightly controlled, biometric “sterile zone” in South Gaza, where critics liken the concentration camps have labelled “sadistic” murder areas. A hand-rena bullet to a hungry crowd.