Statement of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vietnam  on the Occasion of International Quds Day – 2024   In the Name of God the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful   On the anniversary of the historic initiative of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution and the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, HazratImam Khomeini (May Allah’s Peace be upon him), to name the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as ‘International Quds Day’, the Palestinian Cause and the liberation of al-Quds al-Sharif have now turned into a symbol of the unity of the entirety of humanity around the world in defence of humanity and freedom, the realisation of justice, and the expression of opposition to occupation, oppression, murder, and crime against the oppressed and besieged people of Palestine by the Zionist regime. On the verge of the 200thday since the outbreak of the recent 6-month Zionist crimes against the Gaza Strip, the situation of Palestine and its civilised and oppressed people has turned into a major human catastrophe. The Zionist regime of Israel continues to commit its horrific crimes: the massacre of nearly 40,000 innocent infants, children, women and men at the hands of an occupying, racist, and terrorist regime, the pursuit of the scorched-earth policy, and the utterruination of the Gaza Strip by destruction of residential houses, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, mosques and churches and the deliberate starvation to death of its people havecontinued. The intensification of the desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque, the first qiblahof world Muslims, and the assault and battery and putting to fire and the sword ofthe worshipers and the mutakif [i.e., religious retreaters] in the courtyard of this holy premisesduring the enlightening days of the blessed month of Ramadan, together with thereports that come out on the perpetration of atrocious and shameful crimes by the Zionists as theyviolate and disrespect Palestinian women and prisoners, have turned not only the Gaza Strip, but the entire Palestinian territory, from an open-air prison for several million Palestinian citizens, into a humanity’s slaughterhouse and a cemetery of the human conscience. Despite the fact that the cries and lamentations of the oppressed and helpless Palestinian children and women have risen to the ceiling of the heavens, the patient and resistant Palestinian nation has courageously and valiantlystoodagainst this great historical injustice and crime. While over the past six months we have witnessed tremendouscohesion and concordamong the justice-seeking and conscientious people in solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine and in expressing abhorrence for the infanticidalZionist regime in the capitals, cities, and villages of world countries, from the global East to the West, even in the Western countries, hundreds of millions of justice-seeking and freedom-loving people the world over will raise louder than ever before the cry of innocence and courage and anti-oppressiveness of the heroic Palestinian nation and the truth and reality of what is transpiring in the Palestinian territoryon this year's International Quds Day as they demand the liberation of Palestine from the yoke of oppression, tyranny, occupation, and genocide, not only as the ‘first issue’ of the World of Islam, but as the issue of the world of humanity and the most flagrant example of gross violation of human rights and international laws and regulations. While vehemently condemning the Zionist regime’s blatant violation of international law and regulations, human rights, and international humanitarian law, the embassyonce again remind the international community and world governments, especially of Muslim countries, of their responsibility to provide all-out support for the oppressed Palestinian people, particularly the besieged inhabitants and war-stricken people of the Gaza Strip,and call for effective, decisive, and immediate action by governments and international legal and human rights institutions to stop these crimes and to lodge a criminal case for prosecuting and trying the commanders, perpetrators, and supporters of such human tragedies. In this regard, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in addition to participating in the process of oral proceedings of the International Court of Justice in legal pursuit of the continued occupation of the Palestinian territories and the violation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, supports the efforts of other world governments towards claiming the rights of the Palestinian people.