Alwaght- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the regime's troops for brutally killing of 17 peaceful Palestinian protesters in the besieged Gaza Strip, amid global condemnation of the 'Land Day' massacre.
In a statement on Saturday, Netanyahu thanked his troops for "guarding the country's borders" and allowing "Israeli citizens to celebrate the [Passover] holiday peacefully". "Well done to our soldiers," he said.
Several countries and rights groups have denounced the shooting of the peaceful Palestinian protesters, who demonstrated in their thousands along Gaza's eastern border on Friday.
More than 1,500 others were wounded when Israeli regime forces fired live ammunition at protesters, used tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets to push them back from the border area, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
On Saturday, 49 more people were wounded in the ongoing demonstrations.
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the United Kingdom's opposition Labour Party, described the Israeli army's use of force as "appalling".
"The UK government must make its voice heard on the urgency of a genuine settlement for peace and justice," he said in a statement on Twitter.
Similar statements were issued from the Jordanian government, which called the attacks a "violation of the Palestinian right to protest peacefully and the use of excessive force against them".
Meanwhile, Iran's Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, the current Chairman of PUIC, issued a statement late on Saturday condemning the Friday massacre of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza strip.
“The only language that the terrorists ruling in Tel Aviv can understand is the language of force and resistance is only solution to counter the ambitious ends of the Zionist regime,” reads the statement issued by Ali Larijani, the current Chairman of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC), late on Saturday.
The senior parliamentarian condemned the killing of Palestinians by Israelis as an “act of crime and inhumanity by the illegitimate and usurping Zionist regime against the demonstrations by the nation of Palestinians.”
Mr. Larijani described the move as “the continuation of the frequent crimes committed by the Zionists under the protection provided by US government.”
He asserted that “the Zionists’ policy of creating tensions and crises along with Trump’s move in announcing the move of US embassy to al-Quds (Jerusalem) are making up a dangerous plot targeting the stability and security of the region.”
The Iranian top law-maker called upon the parliaments of the Islamic countries and the world to undertake required measures and condemn the Zionists to protect the legitimate rights of the Palestinians and prevent the Zionists from creating new crises.
