GAZA, (PIC)
The National and Islamic Forces Follow-up Committee called on the United Nations and the international community to hold the occupation forces accountable for the new crime that they carried out on Thursday against hundreds of civilians waiting for relief aid south of Gaza City.
The committee considered the new massacre a full-fledged war crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces as part of the ongoing genocide war in the Gaza Strip.
The follow-up committee held the United Nations and all international and regional parties responsible for blocking aid supply access to the people of Gaza.
The latest instance of the Israeli army opening direct fire on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza City and the Strip’s northern areas has resulted in the killing of 20 people and injury of numerous others.
The horrific crime was strongly denounced by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which called it part of the Israeli strategy to starve and terrorize civilians across the Gaza Strip and impose additional restrictions on the entry and distribution of the already limited aid allowed to enter the besieged enclave.
Euro-Med Monitor highlighted that Israeli forces deliberately targeted dozens of starving Palestinian civilians with artillery shells at the Kuwait roundabout leading to Gaza City, killing at least 20 individuals and wounding more than 150 others, many of whom remain in critical condition.
The humanitarian crisis that the Palestinian people are facing amid Israel’s creation of a famine in the Strip has already had dire consequences, the human rights organization noted. It stated that Palestinian civilians are paying a heavy price while the international community and its capable institutions continue to ignore calls to stop Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza, including hungry people seeking humanitarian supplies.
Similar incidents were reported by Euro-Med Monitor on Monday, January 22, after hundreds of starved civilians gathered on Salah al-Din Road, southeast of Gaza City, were targeted by Israeli artillery shells as they waited for UN relief trucks, resulting in several casualties.
Israeli quadcopter drones had previously opened fire on Palestinians on January 11, said the rights group. The civilians had gathered to receive flour via United Nations trucks on Al-Rashid Street, in the west of Gaza City. Nearly 50 Palestinians were killed, and numerous others were wounded in the attack.
