“The massacre committed by the terrorist occupation army against starving civilians at a humanitarian aid distribution point near the Zikim area in northern Gaza, resulting in over sixty martyrs and dozens of injuries, is a brutal escalation in the genocide campaign,” Hamas Movement said, adding that it reflects the use of aid and starvation to lure and kill innocent people and to inflict suffering upon them.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Hamas emphasized that what is happening in Gaza constitutes a major crime in which killing, starvation, and thirst are used as tools of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It called on the international community to urgently intervene “to end this humanitarian catastrophe, which the occupation government, led by war criminal Netanyahu, is intensifying.”
Hamas asked, “How can the world remain silent about the deaths of more than seventy children due to malnutrition, while the majority of Gaza’s residents are facing mass death as a result of the siege and the declared starvation policy imposed by the occupation for the past 140 days.”
“How can the world and every person with a living conscience accept that thousands of tons of humanitarian aid remain piled up behind the Rafah crossing while people in Gaza die from hunger, thirst, and disease,” it elaborated.
Hamas held Israel and the US administration fully responsible for these crimes, and called for an urgent international investigation into the suspicious American-Israeli mechanism for distributing aid, which has turned into a systematic killing tool against civilians.
The Movement urged the United Nations and all humanitarian organizations to act immediately to stop this disaster and demanded the immediate opening of the Rafah crossing to deliver the stockpiled aid, away from Israeli control.
Finally, Hamas called on the Arab and Islamic countries to fulfill their religious, national, and humanitarian responsibilities, and to urgently move to lift the siege on Gaza and support the steadfast Palestinian people in defending their land.
