A senior Iranian cleric has called on the world Islamic countries to unite in support of the Palestinians and condemning genocide and forced displacement of the Palestinians as violation of the international laws.

Hujjat-ul-Islam Hamid Shahriari, Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in his speech at the 19^th meeting of the Muslim Forum held in Cathedral Mosque of Moscow, called on the Muslim nations and world liberal people to unite for practical measures for Palestine, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
 
He said is his Tuesday speech that Palestine stands number one issue for world Muslims.
 
Two Islamic values: security and justice remained at the core of the speech by Iranian cleric who said,” Security means a protection of the values, principles and assets against threats and possible damage by others.
 
According to the cleric when people are threatened with bombardment or demolition of their homes, forced expulsion and occupation of their lands then their security is undermined.
 
He called justice as the “highest social value” and said,” Injustice and oppression deprive people, by hostility, from their right to live and stay in their ancestral lands”, and added,” These are the rights taken from Palestinians.”
 
Hujjat-ul-Islam Shahriari noted deplored the US-backed Israeli regime for depriving the Palestinian nation from all their rights through occupation of their lands, brutal atrocities against the nation, demolition of their homes, looting their possessions and expelling them from their ancestral lands.
 
“We are witness to displacement of many Gaza families, death of thousands of civilians most of them children and women, injury of more than fifty thousand and a child is being killed every ten minutes” said the cleric and deplored the international bodies for not taking action against these crimes.
 
The Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought condemned the world arrogant powers and occupying Israeli regime who have caused forced displacement, siege and war across the globe in order to guarantee their interests.
 
According to the cleric, the occupying Israeli regime brands the massacre of Palestinian women and children as just war while condemns resistance’s defense for human rights as terrorism.
 
He denounced the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and said, “The United Nations has clearly failed in maintaining peace in the world but how many people should be killed so the UN officials are awakened?”
 
Hujjat-ul-Islam Shahriari said,” Islamic nation and world liberal people should demand their rulers to unite in support of the Palestinians and stress Palestine as number one issue for the world of Islam.”
 
The Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought proposed a four-stage plan for establishment of peace in the occupied Palestine that includes: return of the displaced Palestinians to their ancestral lands, holding referendum by native Muslims, Christians and Jews, establishment of a political system and also sovereignty of an elected government over the entire Palestinian regions.
 
Hujjat-ul-Islam Shahriari made the remarks in his address at the 19^th meeting of the Muslim Forum held in Moscow. The meeting was also attended by religious and political figures from 18 countries who discussed the ongoing developments in Gaza.