GAZA, (PIC)
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has accused Israeli authorities of orchestrating a systematic crime against more than 2.4 million civilians in the Gaza Strip through an all-encompassing blockade and the deliberate obstruction of basic humanitarian needs—an act in clear violation of international law, particularly the four Geneva Conventions.
In a statement issued Friday, the GMO said that for over 70 consecutive days, Israel has maintained a total closure of all crossings into Gaza, blocking the entry of around 39,000 humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, fuel, and medicine. This blockade persists amid a rapidly accelerating humanitarian and health collapse, and as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide and continuous attacks on civilians.
The GMO highlighted that all bakeries in Gaza have been completely shut down for 40 days, depriving Palestinians of bread—an essential food staple—and worsening the famine and malnutrition crisis, particularly among children, the sick, and the elderly. Over 65,000 children are now at risk of death due to severe malnutrition and lack of access to food, a direct result of Israel’s starvation tactics.
It warned that famine is now spreading rapidly and fatally across tens of thousands of families in Gaza. The complete absence of food, the collapse of healthcare services, and the acute shortage of medicine and medical supplies—caused by the siege—have created an unsustainable humanitarian disaster.
The statement condemned what it described as a systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war, labeling it a crime of genocide under Article 2 of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The GMO held Israel—and its political and military backers, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—fully responsible for these crimes and their catastrophic consequences on civilian life, public health, and the fate of hundreds of thousands of children, patients, and elderly individuals.
It called on the international community, the United Nations, and the UN Security Council to urgently intervene to lift the Israeli blockade, end the starvation campaign, and immediately and unconditionally reopen all crossings to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, food, fuel, and medicine.
Furthermore, it demanded the dispatch of independent international investigative missions to document these crimes, hold Israeli leaders accountable before international courts, and implement binding measures to end the aggression and genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The GMO concluded by stressing that the continued silence of the international community amounts to complicity, fosters a culture of impunity, and emboldens Israel to persist in committing crimes against humanity against a defenseless and besieged population.
