In a telephone call with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday, Abbas Araqchi strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s atrocities against the defenseless Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
He underscored the urgent need for unified and immediate action by Islamic countries to halt these crimes.
Araqchi was pointing to the Israeli regime’s resumption of its genocidal war on Gaza since Tuesday in outright breach of Tel Aviv’s ceasefire agreement with the coastal sliver’s Hamas resistance movement.
The fresh genocidal campaign has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in addition to the roughly 48,000 people that the brutal military onslaught had already killed.
Amid the deadly atrocities, the Israeli regime’s minister for military affairs, Israel Katz threatened to annex parts of Gaza unless Hamas released the Zionist captives, who remained in the Palestinian territory.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Araqchi denounced the military aggression by the United States and the United Kingdom against Yemen, highlighting the resulting casualties among innocent women and children, as well as the destruction of the country’s infrastructures.
He underscored the shared responsibility of the global Muslim community to support their fellow Muslims in the violence-wracked and impoverished Arab Peninsula country.
For his part, Farhan reiterated Riyadh’s firm stance in condemning the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression.
He stressed the necessity for coordination and close cooperation among regional countries to prevent escalation of the crisis.