The head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin BoroujerdiThe Israeli bombardment of Gaza Saturday left at least 227 dead and 800 wounded, making it the biggest such atrocity in 60 years of Israel-Palestine conflict.
In an interview with ISNA News Agency in Tehran on Saturday, the head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi stated that the United Sates and other Western backers of the Zionist entity must be held accountable for the Gaza carnage.
Without their full support the Zionists would lack the effrontery to launch such a large-scale onslaught on defenseless Palestinians, he noted.
“The Zionist regime has enjoyed the Bush administration's generous support to limber up for the new wave of appalling atrocities. The ongoing Gaza tragedy is regarded as the litmus test for US President-elect Barack Obama to show a timely action to halt the violence,” the Iranian lawmaker commented.
Boroujerdi maintained that missile attacks on Gaza are an obvious manifestation of Tel Aviv's desperation rather than a show of might.
He also called on Muslim states to play their vital role to cease the worsening humanitarian crisis.
Israeli warplanes carried out a massive air strike on Hamas installations and and the neighborhoods that surround them inside the Gaza Strip. Of the at least 227 dead and more than 800 wounded, preliminary reports indicate the overwhelming majority of the casualties are civilians and not Hamas military-wing members or political activists.
Video footage showed the bodies of dead people including men, women and children on Gaza's streets.
Hamas said that Israeli F-16 jet fighters had hit some 40 targets across the coastal sliver.
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