Gaza deal guarantors must force Israel to stop violations: Iran
Iran has called on the US, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, which have identified themselves as the guarantors of an agreement reached recently with the aim of ending the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza, to pressure Tel Aviv into stopping its deadly violations.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks in a statement on Tuesday, addressing the regime’s outright transgressions throughout the day that had killed and wounded at least 10 Palestinians across the coastal sliver.
He called on the guarantors “to hold the Zionist regime accountable and compel it to stop its crimes.”
The official recalled the regime’s “habitual practice” of violating agreements and exploiting declared ceasefires to continue its deadly crimes against Palestinians.
Accordingly, he warned about “the consequences of any inaction by the guarantors in response to the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression against the people of Gaza.”
On October 8, Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement announced reaching the agreement during indirect negotiations with the regime aimed at ending the two-year-plus US-backed war of genocide.
The accord came about after the movement agreed to release the remaining Israeli captives in the coastal sliver and hand over the territory’s administration to a Palestinian body.
It offered the concessions, despite the regime’s having drastically violated previous deals in the early stages of the genocide as well as in January 2025 by not only reneging on its promises, but also markedly escalating the brutal military onslaught.
Conclusion of the agreement, which is based on a 20-point plan devised by Washington, also followed widely reported deliberate attempts by Tel Aviv to obstruct an understanding that could lead to cessation of the genocide.
Throughout its course, the onslaught has claimed the lives of at least 67,913 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Baghaei’s remarks came after the Zionist regime's military killed at least six people and wounded four others during attacks on the Gaza City and the vicinity of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, the spokesman strongly denounced simultaneous destruction of olive groves, burning of residential homes, and desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, by extremist Israeli settlers throughout the occupied West Bank.