GAZA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement held the international community and its institutions responsible for failing to carry out their humanitarian and legal duties towards the food crisis and systematic starvation policy pursued by Israel against the people of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday evening, “The Zionist occupation continues to implement a systematic starvation policy against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, escalating its aggression since March 2 by closing the crossings and preventing the entry of water, food, and medical supplies.”
It emphasized that “the complete closure of Gaza’s crossings is a full-fledged war crime committed in front of the eyes of the world and its suspicious silence.”
Hamas said that “starvation has become a direct weapon in the brutal war which targets Palestinians’ lives, dignity and steadfastness,” noting that bakeries have announced that they have stopped operating, after running out of flour from the Gaza Strip.
It added that the Gaza Strip has effectively entered the stage of famine, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history, “and a crime that represents a serious escalation of the crime of genocide practiced by the occupation without deterrence or accountability.”
Hamas stressed that the silence of the international community encourages the occupation to continue its policies of killing, starvation and siege, and held “the occupation fully responsible for the crime of genocide and its catastrophic humanitarian consequences.”
Hamas called on the Arab and Islamic nations to assume their responsibilities and take urgent action to save Gaza from famine and destruction.
The Movement also called on the free people of the world to take immediate action to break the unjust siege and save more than two million people, demanding an immediate opening of the crossings and allowing the entry of water, food, and medicine supplies.
