TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Rayeesi stressed the need to prosecute the Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people at international levels.
"The hard war between the Zionist army and the oppressed people of Gaza is apparently over, but another soft war, which is to hand over Zionist criminals to international courts, must be seriously pursued," Rayeesi said at a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary on Monday.
"The need to prosecute these criminals in all courts and international forums is a serious matter that should be pursued by all lawyers and freedom-seekers in the world," he added.
"The victor of this field is the Palestinian Resistance, and God willing, and the real victory will be achieved soon with the liberation of Holy Quds," Rayeesi noted.
The Israeli military launched a bloody military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on May 10, razing many homes and civilian buildings to the ground in the already-besieged Palestinian territory.
Meanwhile, Palestinian sources reported that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to at least 248 Palestinians, including tens of children and women.
The report by the Palestinian Health Ministry noted that Israel’s military aggression, which lasted for 11 days, has also wounded over 1,900 civilians, dozens of them seriously.
Meantime, retaliatory rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against Israeli targets came in response to Israel’s relentless airstrikes on the densely-populated enclave.
On May 16, Israeli sources said that Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups had fired around 4,000 rockets toward the occupied territories over the previous several days, surpassing the pace seen during an escalation in 2019 and the 2006 war with Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance group.
Israel had to accept self-declared ceasefire on Friday.
In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf expressed pleasure in the recent victory of the Palestinian resistance groups against Israel, saying that the Palestinian people’s success was actually the victory of the Muslim world.
"The recent victory of the Palestinian people was, in fact, a great victory for the Resistance Front and the Palestinians living in the occupied territories and Gaza, as well as the Muslim world," Qalibaf said in a meeting with Vice-Speaker of the Syrian Parliament Mohammed Akram al-Ajalani on the sidelines of the 4th extraordinary meeting of the Palestine Permanent Committee of the Union of Parliaments of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Tehran on Monday.
He expressed the hope that relations between the two countries would further deepen, and that "mutual cooperation would lead to more defense and support for dear Palestine".
Al-Ajalani, for his part, described the Palestinian issue as one of the complicated issues in the world, and said, “The victory of the Palestinian people displays the victory of all the nations that have suffered from the oppression of global arrogance, and we hope that Palestine will earn victory to leave no point and place in this region for the Zionist regime, which is a parasite and viral being, and the virus will soon disappear.”
