Alwaght- The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry Nasser Kan’ani has condemned the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, calling for a united international action to stop Tel Aviv’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Kan’ani’s statement criticized the “hypocritical and duplicitous” positions of the US and some Western countries on human rights issues across the world.
“Their unconditional support for the usurping Zionist regime and its daily crimes against the oppressed Palestinian nation is the biggest example of human rights violations which have been going on for consecutive decades,” Iran's Press TV cited his statement.
Kan’ani drew the world attention to the ongoing Israeli crimes and terrorist acts in the occupied West Bank, including the siege and attack on Nablus, and urged the international community to take action to condemn and stop Tel Aviv’s genocide against the Palestinians.
At the same time, he hailed the “courageous resistance” of the Palestinian, especially the youths, in Al-Quds, Jenin and Nablus.
The Israeli military has imposed a strict siege on Nablus since October 11, blocking the city’s entrances with military checkpoints and earth mounds, while Israeli drones constantly hover over the northern West Bank city.
The siege came in the wake of a retaliatory shooting attack carried out by the Palestinian resistance group Lion’s Den near Nablus in which an Israeli soldier was killed.
The siege, which Israeli officials said will continue until further notice, has had economic repercussions on a city that has a particular industrial and commercial importance for the West Bank.
Israeli forces have also recently been conducting overnight raids and killings in the northern occupied West Bank, mainly in the cities of Jenin and Nablus, where new groups of Palestinian resistance fighters have been formed. On Thursday, the Israeli military killed 6 Palestinians and injured over 20 in a raid in Nablus.
At least 175 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year, including 51 Palestinians during Israel’s three-day assault on Gaza in August, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Human rights groups have regularly condemned the Israeli atrocities and crimes in various Palestinians cities and called for punishments to Tel Aviv, but West diplomatic cover has always been a shield to the Israelis against any international prosecution.
