Baghaei condemned the Israeli regime's newly approved plan to lay its full military control over the Gaza Strip as a wider plan to commit genocide in the entire Palestinian territories.
"The threat to complete occupation of Gaza and the historic land of Palestine by the criminal rulers [of the Zionist regime] who are wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and whose actions are being investigated by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a crime of genocide, is another vivid sign of the Zionist regime's certain intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza and genocide the Palestinians, which must be taken into account by the ICC and the ICJ," Baghaei said.
Emphasizing the legal and moral duties of each government and the United Nations to stop the genocide and heinous crimes being committed in the occupied Palestine, Baghaei called the continued complicity of the United States and some other Western countries with the crimes of the Israeli regime disgraceful.
He called for forcing the Israeli regime to stop the genocide and immediately send humanitarian aid to the hungry and thirsty people of Gaza as a necessary step to end the catastrophe
He also referred to the Islamic Republic of Iran's official request to the Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as Saudi Arabia as the home to the organization, and Turkey as the chairman of its Council of Ministers, to immediately hold an emergency meeting to discuss the deteriorating crisis in Gaza.
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson further called for collective action on the part of Islamic countries to help the oppressed people of Palestine.
IRNA