TEHRAN -- Majlis Speaker Mahdi Karrubi on Monday called on the international community to take immediate and strong action to stop the human tragedy in Palestine.

In a message to the delegates taking part in the 107th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Morocco, Karrubi said that the Zionist regime has escalated its carnage and relentless massacre of women and children in Palestine, adding that the Zionist regime has no plan except for genocide of the Palestinians and forcing them to leave their homeland.

He complained that the United Nations Security Council did not take firm steps to protect the Palestinians from Israeli military attacks and called on the IPU conference to do all within its power to urge the United Nations to send international observers to the occupied territories of Palestine and also urge the European Union (EU) to stop the Israeli atrocities in Palestine.

"Continued massacre of Palestinians by the Zionist regime has exposed the Middle East and the entire world to critical situation," Karrubi said.

He said that the Western media and that of the Zionist regime have embarked on propaganda campaign against the Islamic nations and the Palestinians adding that the Islamic states should adopt common stance in the IPU conference to help vindicate the Palestinians rights.

Karrubi extended his best wishes for the success of the IPU conference underway in Marakesh, Morocco.

Member of Majlis Presiding Board Hossein Hashemi is leading the Iranian Parliamentary delegation to IPU conference.

Meanwhile, Arab League Chief Amr Mussa said in an interview yesterday that Israel was unlikely to seek a just peace with the Palestinians but would also find it impossible to defeat their resistance.

"If the occupation continues, the resistance will increase. These are two sides of the same coin," Mussa said in an interview with the Egyptian government newspaper *** Al-Ahram ***. "It is impossible to defeat the resistance."

However, the league's secretary general said he was "very pessimistic about an eventual understanding about a just peace."

The problem is not linked so much to hardline Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's personality, but to the "orientation of the Israeli political and military establishment," he added.

"This establishment does not want to discuss a just peace, and considers itself above everything: The UN Security Council cannot criticize it, the American political system protects it," he said.

The Israelis "have the feeling that their position is very strong, which allows them to dictate their conditions," Mussa said.

Yet, Israel "is not a strategic power, and just finds itself temporarily in a situation of power," Mussa added.