The Iraqi Communist Party strongly condemned the brutal Israeli onslaught on Lebanon and the air raids by the Zionist occupation army that were launched this morning and afternoon, and are still continuing, on many areas in the south and east of the country. They have claimed the lives of more than 270 people and 1000 injured, including children, women, paramedics and unarmed civilians, and have also caused a large displacement of the population in the southern and Bekaa Valley regions.
Comrade Raid Fahmi, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, said that "this brutal onslaught on Lebanon represents a dangerous escalation of the criminal war of genocide by the Zionist occupation state against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and comes amid threats of a military invasion of southern Lebanon. It threatens to ignite an all-out war in the region that will have dire repercussions on security and peace in the Middle East and the world."
He pointed out that "this dangerous escalation would not have happened without the absolute support for Netanyahu’s fascist government by the United States and its allies, enabling it to get away with impunity, and the absence of solidarity and pressing measures from the Arab countries, despite the crimes of genocide and war crimes committed by the Zionist occupation state against the Palestinian people, which are continuing for the twelfth month."
Comrade Fahmi stressed that “Iraqi Communists, during these difficult moments, stand firmly and resolutely alongside the fraternal Lebanese people and their patriotic forces in confronting this brutal Zionist aggression”. He called on the Iraqi patriotic and democratic forces "to express effective solidarity with Lebanon and its people”. He also called upon the Iraqi Government "to provide urgent health and humanitarian aid to the Lebanese people, and to act speedily on Arab and international levels, at the United Nations, to stop the Zionist aggression on Lebanon immediately and ensure the protection of the people of Lebanon and its national sovereignty."
Baghdad – 23 September 2024