Iran, Oman FMs discuss ways to stop Israel’s aggression, crimes in region

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrived in Oman on Monday as he is continuing consultations with heads of states of regional countries in a bid to stop Israeli aggression and killings in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

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Date: 14 October 2024 - 11:30

TABNAK, Oct, 14: In a meeting with his Omani counterpart Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, the two sides discussed the latest developments including continuous war in Lebanon and Gaza Strip and conferred on ways to put an end to Zionist regime’s crimes in the region.

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched the genocidal war against the Gaza Strip in response to a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.

At least 2,306 people have been killed and 10,698 others injured in Israeli air raids on Lebanon since early October 2023, according to Lebanon’s Public Health Ministry.

The resistance movement Hezbollah says Israel poured “missiles loaded with cluster bombs” over neighborhoods in southern Lebanon.

Cluster munitions are globally prohibited because they cause both immediate and long-term civilian harm.

In March this year, Israel used white phosphorus bombs in south Lebanon again, said HRW. Later in June, it released a report, warning that the regime’s “use of airburst white phosphorus munitions in populated areas indiscriminately harms."

In recent weeks, Israel has mounted its bloody aerial assaults on Lebanon, causing the displacement of at least 1.3 million people, more than a fifth of the country’s population.

Over the same period, the Zionist regime has been waging a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 42,227 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 98,464 others.