Iran, on Monday, demanded a sustained ceasefire in Gaza, decrying Israel’s actions as “crimes” in the territory, while the agreed truce between Israel and Hamas reached its final day.
Hamas has announced its readiness to extend the four-day truce beyond its anticipated end on early Tuesday, offering to release additional hostages.
Dozens of hostages have been freed during the pause initiated on Friday, with Israel releasing over 100 Palestinian prisoners in response.
‘As the Islamic Republic of Iran, we want and expect… that the crimes of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people will be stopped completely,’ said Nasser Kanani, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman.
Kanani told reporters during his weekly press conference that Iran is “following” the extension of the truce ‘with the regional party active in this field, the state of Qatar’.
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Kanani told reporters during his weekly press conference that Iran is “following” the extension of the truce ‘with the regional party active in this field, the state of Qatar’.
Iran’s Foreign Minster Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was on a visit to the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday.
‘One of the main goals of the ongoing negotiations and efforts is to ensure that the existing temporary ceasefire takes a stable form and that the cruel aggression of the Zionist regime (Israel) against Gaza is not repeated,’ he added.
But ‘it seems that the Zionist regime after not being able to achieve its objectives” after the offensive on Gaza, ‘wants to obtain a tangible victory’, he added, suggesting Israel would continue its offensive in Gaza.
Iran, critical of Israel’s military actions in Gaza as genocide, asserts no direct role in the Hamas attack on Israel.
The incursion on October 7 by the Palestinian militant group led to the death of 1,200 individuals, the majority being civilians, as stated by Israeli authorities.
In retaliation, Israel launched a military offensive with the objective of eradicating Hamas, causing the death of almost 15,000 individuals, primarily civilians, including thousands of children, according to Gaza’s Hamas government.