Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has called on the international community to bear responsibility for the “massacres” being committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports.

Al-Sudani’s remarks came during his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who paid a short visit to Baghdad, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

The prime minister’s media office said in a statement that “during the meeting, developments in the escalating events in the Gaza Strip were discussed, and the need to contain the crisis and ensure that it does not expand was emphasised.”

Al-Sudani reiterated “Iraq’s clear and principled position of rejecting the Zionist aggression against Gaza and the necessity of an immediate cease-fire and the opening of the crossings to avoid the worsening humanitarian catastrophe, which has claimed the lives of civilians, (including) women and children,” the statement said.

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