GAZA, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces continue their operations of extermination and genocide in northern Gaza for the ninth consecutive day, killing over 300 citizens while dozens of martyrs remain in the streets and under the rubble of destroyed homes, alongside hundreds of injured individuals.
The Government Media Office (GMO) said in a release on Sunday that the Israeli army is waging a war of extermination and genocide in northern Gaza and is preventing rescue teams and civil defense from retrieving dozens of martyrs from the streets, seeking to completely eliminate the health system and hospitals.
It confirmed that the occupation has killed more than 300 martyrs over the course of 9 continuous days of killing and extermination, in a systematic crime and a total siege against civilians, particularly children and women, and residential areas.
The GMO added that these nine consecutive days of a clearly defined war of extermination are being waged by the Israeli army as part of the genocide being executed in northern Gaza.
The statement accused the U.S. administration of engineering the genocide and providing complete cover for the atrocities of the occupation.
According to the statement, the occupation army is committing crimes against humanity and practicing intentional killing through bombing displacement and shelter centers, perpetrating several horrific massacres against civilians by deliberately targeting gatherings of children and women. The occupation army is also targeting all vital sectors in northern Gaza and aims to turn the area into a zone of destruction, killing, and extermination.
GMO warned that the Israeli occupation army is vigorously pursuing a clearly defined plan for displacement, which is the largest and most dangerous American-Israeli colonial plan of the 21st century and modern era.
It pointed out that this has been stated by ministers in the Israeli government, warning that the criminal displacement plan has been approved by US President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who granted the occupation the green light to implement the malicious forced displacement plan against civilians, in a blatant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and all international agreements. They are collectively committing 19 types of crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
The GMO emphasized that what is happening in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalia and its refugee camp, constitutes a clear crime of extermination, particularly as the occupation seeks to uproot, burn, and eliminate all vital sectors.
It noted that the occupation army has rendered all hospitals in the north non-operational and is preventing fuel from reaching these hospitals for the seventh consecutive time. These hospitals, which house dozens of injured and sick individuals, especially in intensive care units, have become akin to martyrdom due to their proximity to ground zero.
It said, “This means that the US administration and Israel have condemned hundreds of thousands to death.”
It extended greetings and respect to our noble Palestinian people for their legendary resilience in the face of the Israeli occupation and the criminal American administration. Their steadfastness and will have thwarted all plans for extermination, standing as a formidable barrier with their empty stomachs against the American and Israeli plans of uprooting the Palestinian people. “Our people faced this with a resilience, will, and patience that even mountains would struggle to match.”
The GMO issued an urgent call for assistance to the international community, especially to Russia and China, as well as to all free nations, international and humanitarian organizations, and all Arab and Islamic countries to exert all forms of pressure on the criminal Israeli occupation by any means necessary to stop the genocide, the extermination war, and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, particularly in the northern Gaza Strip.
The GMO demanded more efforts to deliver food aid to tens of thousands of the Palestinian people in northern Gaza, who are subjected to a systematic policy of starvation by the occupation army, which has prevented food and baby formula from reaching them for over 170 consecutive days. Israel has decided to kill tens of thousands of civilians and children, either through bombing and targeting or by starving them and blocking food from reaching the Gaza Strip and northern Gaza.
It condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation army’s crimes of murder and starvation against civilians and the displaced, particularly in Jabalia and its camp. It denounced the occupation army’s relentless efforts to ruin the healthcare system and turn the north into a wasteland of destruction. The Office called on the international community and all countries of the world to condemn these ongoing crimes.
It held the Israeli occupation, the American administration, and all countries complicit in the genocide against the Palestinian people, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and other criminal states, fully responsible for the continuation of these crimes over the past year “without these criminals stopping their brutal war against our defenseless Palestinian people.”
The GMO warned the international community and all international organizations that the Israeli occupation army is committing a clear extermination crime and waging a war of uprooting against civilians and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people. It urged them all to take practical steps towards an immediate and swift halt to these crimes against humanity, and to pursue Israeli war criminals in international courts in preparation for their prosecution and bringing them to justice for their ongoing crimes.
