Supreme Leader condemns attack on Gaza aid convoy
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, June 1, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message on Tuesday said that the recent attack on Gaza aid convoy was an assault on world public opinion and human conscience across the globe.
Ayatollah Khamenei, in his message, condemned the Israeli attack on peace flotilla which was carrying aid for the people in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
Today, the issue of Palestine is neither an Arabic nor an Islamic one, but it is an issue pertaining to the contemporary world.
The Supreme Leader reiterated that supporters of the Zionist regime, particularly the US, Britain and France must be held accountable for the aid convoy attack.
“By such a move, the Tel Aviv regime proved that the Zionism is a new and harsher version of Fascism supported and assisted by the so-called advocates of democracy and human rights particularly Washington,” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized.
The US, Britain, France and other European states that have politically, economically and militarily assisted the criminal Zionists must be seriously held accountable for the atrocities of the occupying regime, the Supreme Leader said.
The Supreme Leader also denounced occupation of the Palestinian territories by a criminal, impudent and insane regime which has imposed an economic blockade on 1.5 million men, women and children in the Gaza Strip depriving them of food and necessary medicines for the past three years.
The Arab governments are faced with a difficult test, he said, urging the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League not to be satisfied with less than lifting the Gaza siege.
The Supreme Leader further stressed that invasion of Palestinian lands in the West Bank should be stopped and war criminals such as Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak be put on trial.
“The combatant Palestinian nation and the people and popular government of Gaza should know that their enemy is currently weaker and more vulnerable than any other time,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The Zionists’ Monday attack on the aid convoy, like the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the past years, would bring the Tel Aviv regime closer to its end, the Supreme Leader stated.
According to media reports, early Monday morning in international waters, Israeli forces intercepted and took control of the six-ship aid convoy, which was carrying 10,000 tons of aid and hundreds of activists from several countries. At least 20 people were killed in serious violence on one or more of the vessels.
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