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Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Mentioned Israel’s “genocide” of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip ought to cease “instantly”, state TV reported on Tuesday, a day earlier than US President Joe Biden is because of go to Israel.

Israel has vowed to annihilate the Tehran-backed Hamas motion that guidelines Gaza after fighters burst into Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,300 individuals, primarily civilians, within the deadliest day within the nation’s 75-year-old historical past.

“Nobody can confront Muslims and the resistance forces if the Zionist regime’s crimes in opposition to Palestinians proceed … the bombardment of Gaza should cease instantly,” Ayatollah Khamenei instructed a bunch of scholars in Tehran.

“The world is witnessing the Zionist regime’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” he mentioned to chants of “Dying to Israel”.

Backing the Palestinian trigger has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic because the 1979 revolution and a manner the Shi’ite-dominated nation has usual itself as a pacesetter of the Muslim world.

Israel, which Tehran refuses to recognise, has lengthy accused Iran’s clerical rulers of stoking violence by supplying arms to Hamas. Tehran says it offers ethical and monetary help to the group.

“We should reply, we should react to what’s occurring in Gaza,” Khamenei mentioned, including that Israeli officers ought to face trial for his or her “crimes in opposition to Palestinians in Gaza”.

Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip with air strikes which have killed greater than 2,800 Palestinians, 1 / 4 of them kids, and pushed round half of the two.3 million Gazans from their houses. It has imposed a complete blockade on the enclave, blocking meals, gas and medical provides, that are quickly operating out.

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