Press Statement by the Islamic Republic of Iran On Sympathizing with beloved families of innocent Palestinian victims due to current brutal war crimes by Israeli regime in Gaza Oslo, 18 October 2023 The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Oslo strongly condemns the war crimes and atrocities by the Israeli regime against innocent people in Gaza in the recent days especially the brutal attack by this regime against the Hospital in Gaza on 17 October 2023. To sympathize with the beloved families of several thousand oppressed victims in Gaza, the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the embassy is flown at half-mast on today, Wednesday 18 October 2023. For more than 7 decades, the oppressed Palestinian people have been deprived of their legitimate and basic rights and faced occupation, refugee, atrocity, torture, humiliations, systematic violations of human rights, coercive policy and etc. Those who are in process of judging, considering, analyzing or making positions regarding Palestine issue or the current horrible situation in Gaza, should pay attentions to real facts, root causes of the situation and above mentioned crimes and atrocities by the Israeli regime. History will judge whether we were on the side of the oppressed or oppressor!