GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has held the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the massacres that were committed in recent days against aid seekers near US-run distribution points in the Gaza Strip and for the use of starvation as a weapon of war against the population.
“A brutal massacre has been committed today by the fascist occupation army when its forces targeted thousands of citizens who headed to one of the distribution centers, which deliver aid according to the Israeli mechanism in western Rafah, killing over 35 people and injuring over 150 others,” Hamas said in a statement on Sunday.
“This massacre has vindicated further the fascist nature of the occupation and its criminal objectives behind this mechanism, as it uses those centers under its control as traps to lure innocent hungry people and to carry out the most brutal forms of killing, humiliation and abuse against them,” Hamas added.
Hamas called on the UN and its Security Council to take urgent and binding measures compelling the Israeli occupation to halt this deadly aid delivery mechanism and to work on reopening Gaza crossings and ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid and its delivery by UN institutions.
The Movement also urged the UN to send an independent international committee to Gaza to investigate these systematic crimes committed against civilians and to hold Israeli war criminals accountable for their actions.
More than 35 people were killed and scores were wounded on Sunday morning when Israeli forces attacked civilians near US-run aid distribution points in Gaza.
