Iran: UNSC resolution on more Gaza aid deliveries 'positive but insufficient'

Iran has described the recent United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at increasing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip a “positive but insufficient step” in addressing the desperate needs of besieged Palestinians in the territory.

“It is very regrettable that after 77 days of frenzied attacks by the Zionist regime against defenseless people in the Gaza Strip, the US administration still prevents the adoption of a binding resolution in the Security Council to stop the war, war crimes and genocide of the Zionist regime in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said on Saturday.

He said the dispatch of aid consignments to Gaza is practically impossible amid ongoing Israeli bombings and military strikes in Gaza for the past 77 days, where more than 60% of residential buildings and urban infrastructure have been destroyed.

Kan’ani said remarks by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres following the vote also attest to this bitter reality.

“The adoption of Resolution 2720 does not absolve the UN Security Council of its responsibilities. The US administration is still primarily responsible for the continuation of brutal attacks and war crimes by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,” he added.

On Friday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on the ongoing Israeli onslaught against Gaza, demanding increased aid deliveries to the besieged region but stopping short of calling for an immediate halt to the genocide.  

It also called for the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" but it did not call for an immediate end to fighting.

The vote in the 15-member Council was 13-0 with the United States and Russia abstaining.

The relentless Israeli strikes against Gaza have massacred at least 20,300 people, most of them women and children, in Gaza. Another 53,320 individuals have been wounded as well.

Experts say that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is now considered one of the most lethal and devastating in recent times.

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