The president of Iran and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday reiterated the need for an end to Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.
In the first phone call to take place between President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the two sides said that the Israeli regime’s crimes and the United States’ green light for the atrocities stand to invite “destructive insecurity” for the occupying regime and its supporters.
“In the first phone call between Ayatollah Raisi & HRH Mohammed bin Salman, the 2 agreed on the need to end war crimes against Palestine. Islamic unity was stressed & both believed the regime’s crimes & the US green light will cause destructive insecurity for the regime & backers,” Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian chief executive’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on a message on X after the phone call.
The comments came after the Gaza Strip’s resistance movements initiated their biggest operation against Israel in years on Saturday in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
Codenamed the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation, the campaign killed at least 1,000 Israeli forces and settlers, and led to many others among them being taken hostage by the resistance groups.
Shedding further light on the contents of the conversation between Raisi and bin Salman, Jamshidi said, “…the 2 agreed on the need to end war crimes against Palestine,” Press TV reported.
Israel has responded to the Palestinian operation by waging a “long” war against Gaza, for which it has called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists.
The military campaign has seen the regime leveling entire districts and featured its use of banned white phosphorous munitions against densely populated neighborhoods.
Earlier this week, the Israeli minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant, announced a “total blockade” to stop food and fuel from reaching Gaza, home to 2.3 million people.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday said he was “deeply distressed” by Israel’s announcement of the complete siege.
The Israeli war has killed at least 1,100 Palestinians, including 326 children, and injured 5,339 others.
