Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei has laid the blame for the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza on the West, saying that the West has “lost face” in global public opinion.
“People of Gaza have mobilized the public’s conscience by their patience. Look at what’s happening in the world,” Khamenei said.
Khamenei remarked that many people in the UK, France, Italy, and the US, came out to the street and chanted slogans against Israel and the United States.
He asserted that those countries have lost their credibility and there is no remedy for them as they cannot justify Israel’s attack.
“The world of Islam shouldn’t forget in the case of Gaza, it was the US, France, and the UK that stood against the oppressed people of Gaza, it wasn’t just the Zionist regime.”
Ali Hosseini Khamenei
The Supreme Leader was also reported as calling on Muslim states to cease oil and food exports to Israel in order to stop the bombardment of Gaza.
In another development, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to investigate the killing of nine journalists – eight Palestinians and one Israeli – since the war began.
Christophe Deloire, the Secretary-General of RSF, said, “The scale, seriousness and recurring nature of international crimes targeting journalists, particularly in Gaza, calls for a priority investigation by the ICC prosecutor.”
“We have been calling for this since 2018. The current tragic events demonstrate the extreme urgency of the need for ICC action,” Deloire added.
According to RSF’s tally, at least 34 journalists have been killed since October 7.
Gaza Experiences Communication Blockout For The Second Time
Telecom provider, Paltel, reported a “complete disruption” of communications and internet services in Gaza on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, morning.
This was the second time as Israel first imposed a near-complete communications blackout on Gaza from Friday to Sunday that lasted close to 36 hours.
It came despite humanitarian aid agencies warning that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in the war-torn enclave.
Due to the communications outage, the Palestinian minister of communications suggested that there is an alternative of operating communications stations near the Gaza border and activating the roaming service on Egyptian networks.
“We appeal to our brothers in Egypt to expedite the remaining option, in the face of this critical humanitarian situation that cannot bear the loss of communication for any longer,” the minister noted in a statement.
Meanwhile, about 80 wounded Palestinians, in addition to 400 foreign nationals or dual passport holders will be allowed to travel into Egypt through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday.
Officials in Gaza released a list of names this morning, asking those named to proceed to the crossing.
The list includes Palestinians also holding Japanese, Austrian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Jordanian, Italian, Greek, Australian and Czech citizenships.
There is also a list of people working for different NGOs having passports from Spain, Italy, the Philippines, Haiti, Germany, the US, Taiwan, Japan, Austria, Mexico, France, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Armenia, Uganda, Ghana, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Czech Republic, New Zealand and Australia.
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