GAZA, (PIC)
The Israeli occupation government blocked on Sunday the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and reneged on the truce after the first phase of the ceasefire deal ended without agreement on continuing into a second phase.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s office justified the measure by claiming that the Hamas Movement had so far refused to accept a temporary ceasefire extension under a proposal by US president Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.
Netanyahu’s office warned of “additional consequences” if Hamas does not accept the new US proposal for a short-term ceasefire.
For its part, the Hamas Movement condemned the Israeli decision to ban the entry of aid to Gaza as “cheap blackmail,” a “full-fledged war crime” and a “blatant breach of the truce.”
Hamas called on the mediators in Egypt and Qatar to immediately intervene to pressure the Israeli government to stop its punitive and unethical measures against more than two million people in Gaza.
