Iran: Zionist entity's foundation based on aggression, crimes

Foreign Ministry Spokesman has strongly denounced the 1982 massacre of thousands of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in the southern flank of the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, stating that the illegal Zionist entity's foundation is based on aggression and crimes.

“Today marks September 16 – forty years after the three-day appalling and unbelievable massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in southern Beirut at the hands of the blood-thirsty Zionist regime and its collaborators,” Nasser Kan’ani wrote in a post published on his Instagram page on Friday, Press TV reported.

He added, “This was neither the first crime committed by the bogus regime nor would be the last one.”

“The foundation of the apartheid Zionist regime is based on aggression, crimes and flagrant violations of international law and human rights, and will always threaten international peace and security,” the senior Iranian diplomat pointed out.

Still remembered as one of the most horrific crimes committed by Israel, the Sabra and Shatila massacre was carried out on September 16, 1982, when Christian Phalangist militias armed by the Tel Aviv regime stormed into the Palestinian refugee camps in southern Beirut and brutally killed up to 3,500 civilians, including many women and children.

After the Phalangists had finished the killing, the bodies of dead children littered the streets like discarded dolls, with bullet holes in the back of their heads.

As the bloodbath concluded, Israel supplied bulldozers to dig mass graves.

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