Gaza – Saba:
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Monday that "the terrorist Minister Smotrich's statement and his assertion that not a single grain of wheat will enter Gaza represents an explicit declaration by the extremist enemy government of imposing a starvation policy on more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a full-fledged war crime being committed before the eyes and ears of the world."
The movement added in a statement reported by Quds Press that this statement "comes more than a month after the Gaza Strip was completely closed to all forms of basic supplies, including food, water, medicine, fuel, and medical supplies, while the enemy army continues to commit daily massacres against defenseless civilians, whether in residential neighborhoods, tents, hospitals, or displacement centers."
It explained that "it is accompanied by brutal crimes and behavior that reflect these declared official directions of the occupation government, the latest of which was the bombing of a food distribution center for displaced people in Khan Yunis, which resulted in the deaths of seven of them, in a new crime that adds to the series of massacres against innocent civilians."
The movement called on the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries, the United Nations, and its agencies to "take serious steps to stop the crime of starvation and the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, activate international accountability mechanisms, and prosecute the criminal leaders of the occupation, who openly declare their flagrant violations of international law day and night."
It also emphasized "the need to heed the warnings of international humanitarian organizations, foremost among them the joint statement by six UN agencies, which warned of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe facing the population of the Gaza Strip, who are facing bombing and starvation, and emphasized the need to allow humanitarian aid into the Strip immediately."
On the 18th of last month, the enemy forces reneged on the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in effect since January 19, and resumed their genocidal war on the devastated Gaza Strip.
With full American support, the enemy forces have been committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 165,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
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