News - Middle East: Iran has described the recent United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at increasing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip a “positive but insufficient step” in addressing the desperate needs of besieged Palestinians in the territory.

“It is very regrettable that after 77 days of frenzied attacks by the Zionist regime against defenseless people in the Gaza Strip, the US administration still prevents the adoption of a binding resolution in the Security Council to stop the war, war crimes and genocide of the Zionist regime in Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said on Saturday.
He said the dispatch of aid consignments to Gaza is practically impossible amid ongoing Israeli bombings and military strikes in Gaza for the past 77 days, where more than 60% of residential buildings and urban infrastructure have been destroyed.
Kan’ani said remarks by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres following the vote also attest to this bitter reality.
“The adoption of Resolution 2720 does not absolve the UN Security Council of its responsibilities. The US administration is still primarily responsible for the continuation of brutal attacks and war crimes by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,” he added.