Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian warned on Thursday that the ongoing “regional terrorist crises should not deflect the Islamic world’s attention away from the issue of Palestine and al-Quds (Jerusalem).”
He added that the issue of Palestine is still the most important matter in the Islamic world.
Amir Abdollahian made the remarks on the occasion of the Palestinian Land Day on March 30. The event marks the 1976 deadly Israeli attacks on Palestinians who were protesting against the confiscation of their land.
The senior Iranian official further described giving active support to Palestine and launching a genuine battle against terrorism as the two key issues in the region, saying, “We take pride in supporting the axis of resistance and the oppressed people of Palestine”.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister also slammed Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and said the regime is the “main source of insecurity” in the region.
Back in February, The European Union censured the Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, calling on the Tel Aviv regime to stop demolition of Palestinian homes.
"In the past weeks there have been a number of developments in Area C of the West Bank, which risk undermining the viability of a future Palestinian state and driving the parties yet further apart," the EU diplomatic service said in a statement on February 6.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).