GAZA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement has called on the UN and the international community to send inquiry committees to the Gaza Strip to visit shelters and displacement centers in order to investigate Israeli claims against them.
In a statement on Saturday, Hamas called for necessarily exposing Israel’s ongoing war crimes in Gaza and enforce the resolutions and conventions intended to protect civilians in wartime in order to end the genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas strongly denounced the remarks that were made by British foreign secretary David Lammy regarding the massacre that had been committed at dawn Saturday against innocent displaced people in al-Tabin School, in which he called on Hamas to stop endangering civilians.
Hamas called Lammy’s remarks an “appalling alignment with the [Israeli] occupation’s false narrative about the alleged use of schools and displacement centers for military purposes,” adding that Israel’s claims in this regard are intended to justify its targeting of civilians.
Hamas also decried his remarks as a “blatant attempt to absolve his country of any legal, political and moral responsibility for providing the Israeli occupation regime with political and military support to continue its brutal genocide in the Gaza Strip.”
“In their reports, several humanitarian groups, the UN, its organizations and international rapporteurs have documented that the terrorist occupation government has committed during more than 10 months of horrific genocide the most atrocious crimes known to humanity against unarmed civilians in [Gaza’s] cities, camps, schools, hospitals and shelters,” Hamas underlined.
“The number of martyrs has neared 40,000 people and over two-thirds of them are women,” Hamas pointed out.
The Movement called on secretary Lammy, his government and Western governments spearheaded by the US administration to back down from this path that makes them accomplices in Israel’s war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Gaza Strip.
In another statement, Hamas described the Israeli occupation army’s claim that a number of civilians who were martyred in the school massacre in al-Daraj neighborhood were members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad as “misleading and false.”
“Out of over 100 civilians cold-bloodedly killed in the al-Tabin School massacre, the occupation army announced a list of 19 martyrs whom it claimed to have been resistance activists in a bid to justify its heinous crime after it received widespread international condemnation,” Hamas said.
Hamas stressed that there was no one gunman among the people who were martyred in Saturday’s massacre, adding that all of them were civilians who were targeted while performing the Fajr (dawn) prayer.
Hamas affirmed that all the people in the Israeli list have nothing to do with any political or military activity, adding that they are civil servants, university teachers, religious figures and children.
