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Tehran, Dec 8, IRNA -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi on Saturday expressed indignation over the Israeli killings of Palestinians and condemned the Zionists attack on the Muslim civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Asefi said the recent assault against the Bureij refugees camp in Gaza Strip during the Eid-ul-Fitr feast was indication of the fact that the Zionist regime of Israel is committing and sponsoring state terrorism.
He said the actions by the Zionists is obviously contrary to what they say about planning to peacefully reach a deal with the Palestinians.
He said the US officials have to have another look over the words and deeds of Zionists and reconsider the rights of the Palestinians so as to set forth realistic and fair plans to settle the Mideast crisis.
He called on the United Nations Security Council to draw up practical mechanisms to bring to a halt the terrorist actions by Israel in the occupied lands.
The Israeli occupation army killed and maimed scores of defenseless Palestinian civilians in the central Gaza Strip yesterday as Palestinians were celebrating the Eid-ul-Fitr east, the holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships rolled intothe Bureij refugee camp south of the Gaza city early Friday, killing at least nine Palestinian civilians, including two pairs of brothers, and injuring scores of other civilians.
Eyewitnesses and Palestinian Authority officials described the killing as "a real massacre of civilians."
Eyewitnesses said Israeli tanks and helicopters fired artillery shells and rockets on densely populated neighborhoods and destroyed many homes with their residents indoors.
One tank shell hit a home, killing four members of the same family. A doctor at the local Al-Aqsa Brigades Hospital, said six Palestinian civilians died, all suffering from gunshots or shrapnel wounds.
Some of the bodies, including that of a ten-year-old child, were reportedly badly mutilated and disfigured by Israeli shells and rockets.
Earlier, in an obvious attempt to justify impending plans to carry out atrocities in Gaza, Sharon alleged that members of the al-Qaeda organization were operating in the Gaza Strip.
The allegations were promptly and vehemently denied by Palestinian officials and leaders of the major resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Hamas, Fatah and the Islamic Jihad have vowed to avenge the "Eid-ul-Fitr massacre."
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