Gaza escalation: Iran asks Muslim world to cut ties with Israel, boycott products

ISLAMABAD: Iran on Wednesday asked Muslim countries to cut diplomatic relations with Israel and boycott the products over the country’s siege and relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip, ARY News reported.

Gaza is being bombed by the occupation forces after the resistance group Hamas launched a surprise attack on October 7, breaching Israel’s defence.

Israel has put the strip — home to 2.3 million people — under siege while local authorities reported killings of more than 5,000 Palestinians. About 40 percent of the people killed are children, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said a day earlier.

Thousands of buildings have been destroyed, and more than one million people displaced in the territory, which has been under siege and largely deprived of water, food and other basic supplies.

Hamas’s attack in southern Israel killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials.

Speaking exclusively to ARY News, Reza Amiri Moghaddam – Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan – regretted that the international community has turned a ‘blind eye’ to Zionist atrocities in Gaza.

“Even hospitals and mosques are not safe from Israel’s relentless bombing,” the Ambassador said, noting that Israel’s attacks on Gaza were against the principles of international, humanitarian and war.

Reza Amiri maintained that Israel’s brutality in Gaza Strip was more “ruthless and widespread than ever”.

He urged all the Muslim countries, which have established relations with Israel, to cut their diplomatic and economic ties and boycott the country’s products.

The Iran’s Ambassador further said that all Muslim countries should open their borders to help the Palestinians – which have suffered from the Israeli atrocities.

“The position adopted by Muslim World on Palestine is good but insufficient”, he opined, expressing gratitude to Pakistan for not recognising Israel.

Ambassador Amiri also said that Saudi Arabia and the regional countries were aware of the fact that United States (US) is not the same power as it was before.

He also regretted “lack of coordination” among Muslim countries amid the Israel-Hames conflict, saying that the greater coordination across the Muslim world could have stopped the Zionist regime from commit this barbarity.

Iran has frequently criticised the role of the United States, which has boosted its military presence in the Middle East since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The Iranian president had already called on October 12 for Muslim and Arab countries to join together to “stop the crimes” of Israel.