Tehran
\nMembers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should impose an oil embargo and other sanctions on Israel and expel all Israeli ambassadors over a deadly strike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
\nAmirabdollahian\u2019s remarks came in a statement on Wednesday amid an emergency OIC meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah to discuss the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
\n\u201cThe foreign minister calls for an immediate and complete embargo on Israel by Islamic countries, including oil sanctions, in addition to expelling Israeli ambassadors if relations with the Zionist regime have been established,\u201d the ministry said.
\nAmirabdollahian also called for the formation of a team of Islamic lawyers to document potential war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Iran has no diplomatic relations with Israel.
\nOn Tuesday night, an Israeli air raid on a hospital in Gaza killed about 500 people, according to Palestinians, in one of the worst attacks since the violence began on October 7.
\nGaza\u2019s Health Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, said on Wednesday that hundreds were killed and rescue workers were still removing bodies from the rubble.
\nPro-Palestinian protests erupted throughout the Middle East and North Africa following the attack and were staged at Israeli embassies in Jordan as well as Turkey and near the US embassy in Lebanon.
\nDemonstrations also took place in Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen and Iraq.
\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cancelled a summit with his US counterpart and said the hospital blast was a \u201chideous war massacre\u201d and that \u201cIsrael has crossed on red lines\u201d.
\nBut Israel\u2019s military has denied responsibility for the attack and claimed a misfired Palestinian rocket hit the hospital.
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, \u201cThe entire world should know: it was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the IDF [Israeli forces].\u201d \u201cThose who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children,\u201d he said.
\nHealth authorities in Gaza have said at least 3,300 people have died during the 11-day conflict, and a further 13,000 people have been wounded.
\nIn Israel, the death toll stands at 1,400, with 4,475 injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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