GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has appealed to the leaders of the Arab and Islamic countries, as well as the UN, to take serious and immediate steps to put an end to Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip and its starvation of the population.
In a statement on Monday, Hamas described the last remarks by far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich about continuing to starve over two million Palestinians in Gaza as a “full-fledged war crime being committed in full view of the entire world.”
“Smotrich made his remarks after more than a month of a complete closure on Gaza and blocking all forms of essential supplies, including food, water, medicine, fuel and medical equipment,” Hamas said.
The Movement added that such remarks by Smotrich reflected the Israeli occupation government’s declared positions and its army’s brutal crimes on the ground, including the recent bombing of a charitable food distribution point in Khan Yunis, which claimed the lives of seven displaced civilians.
Smotrich vowed on Monday to prevent the entry of “a single grain of wheat” into the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
Israel has kept Gaza’s border crossings closed since the beginning of March, halting the flow of humanitarian, relief and medical aid into the war-battered territory while bombing all types of remaining supplies, leading to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
