NEW YORK (IRNA) -- Iran urged the United Nations Security Council to take urgent and meaningful action to force the Israeli regime to stop its atrocities and crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

In a letter to President of the UN Security Council Neven Jurica, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Eshagh Al Habib urged the body to help alleviate the sufferings and pain of the people in the region.
“The world community is yet again witnessing, in outrage and pain, the horrendous terrorist acts of the Israeli regime against the innocent Palestinian people in the Gaza strip,” said the ambassador.
He said that the ongoing situation in Gaza has shocked the world again as the “irresponsible and criminal regime, after having starved a whole population, is now taking its pre-planned and wicked ploy in slaughtering them.”
The letter added that the Israeli regime’s brutal terrorist acts and criminal policies as well as its massacring of hundreds of defenseless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were all another example of the Zionists plot to slaughter innocent people in the occupied lands.
Hundreds of people have been killed. Many of them were children on their way back home from school, and others were innocent men and women who tried to survive under an unprecedented malicious humanitarian crisis imposed on them by the Israeli regime, or run out of their homes to save their kids from the Israeli savagery, added the ambassador in his letter.
He added, “All these crimes that are among the most horrendous crimes ever committed in the history of mankind, are happening while some of those permanently seated at the Security Council have even fallen short of calling on the Israeli regime to stop its crimes against humanity.
“The same powers, by incapacitating the Council to take any action against Israeli crimes in the past, are undoubtedly sharing responsibility in this new round of Israeli crimes against humanity.”
Al Habib further argued that the Council’s inaction towards the Israeli brutalities in the past has emboldened the regime in its atrocities and crimes against the Palestinian people.
“For so many months, more than 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip have been starved and deliberately kept deprived, by the Israeli regime, of the most basic services and goods that they need for survival, and now they are being eliminated before the eyes of the international community while the Security Council has remained idle and practically indifferent,” said the ambassador.
He noted, “Inaction is not an option. Business as usual where the Council has been prevented from taking any action to counter the Israeli crimes, and has been put to work only when and where the interests of a few powers require, should be ended.
“The Israeli regime is making mockery of the whole international community and of the Security Council. The Security Council needs to act to put an end to this Israeli impunity and to these atrocious crimes,” he stressed.
Al Habib’s letter was circulated as a Council document.