MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian believes the global community needs to impose an embargo on Israeli-made goods and hold Israel accountable for its crimes in the Gaza Strip.

"It is necessary to halt energy exports to Israel and impose an embargo on goods manufactured in Israel - this is the least we can do to show that we are with the people of Gaza," he said at a meeting of top diplomats from the Caspian littoral states in Moscow.

"Apart from that, the war criminals of the Israeli regime should be tried in international courts and punished," he stressed.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.