GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza confirmed that the Israeli occupation army targeted 26 food kitchens and 37 aid centers since the beginning of the genocide war “in pursual of the systematic starvation war against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
The Office said in a statement on Friday that in a new crime added to the Israeli record of violations and crimes against humanity, the occupation army directly targeted 26 food kitchens since the onset of the genocide war on the Gaza Strip, noting that these kitchens provided meals for the displaced and the needy.
The occupation army also brutally bombed more than 37 aid distribution centers, confirming to the entire world that it adopts a systematic starvation policy as a tool of war and genocide against more than 2.4 million Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip, according to the statement.
The GMO affirmed that this crime comes within the context of a tightened siege imposed by Israel for nearly a month, after the occupation army completely closed the crossings and prevented the entry of humanitarian and relief aid, including vital fuel trucks needed by the Srip to maintain the most basic levels of life.
It noted that since the beginning of March until today, 16,800 humanitarian aid trucks, in addition to 1,400 fuel trucks (diesel and cooking gas), were supposed to enter Gaza, but the occupation army prevented their entry, “tightening its grip on the enclave and increasing the suffering of our Palestinian people, who are living in unprecedented tragic conditions.”
It said, “In a blatant challenge to all international laws and norms, the occupation continues to obstruct the implementation of the humanitarian protocol it signed, as it prevented the entry of 200,000 tents and 60,000 caravans designated for sheltering nearly 280,000 displaced Palestinian families whose homes were demolished by the occupation army. It also refuses to allow the entry of heavy equipment necessary for clearing rubble and retrieving the bodies of more than 11,000 martyrs and missing persons still under the debris, in a scene that encapsulates the size of the humanitarian disaster facing the Strip.”
It pointed out that the siege imposed today on Gaza is nothing but an extension of a systematic policy of starvation and thirst pursued by the occupation forces for 18 years, but it has reached unprecedented levels of brutality today, with food and medicine sources being targeted and humanitarian aid being prevented, which warns of a humanitarian catastrophe threatening the lives of more than 2.4 million Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, amid a shameful international silence and the inability of humanitarian organizations to fulfill their role.
The GMO condemned in the strongest terms the continued Israeli crime of genocide, holding the occupation and the U.S. administration fully responsible for the catastrophic deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented manner, and called on all free countries of the world to condemn these crimes which international law classifies as crimes against humanity.
It finally warned that the continuation of this brutal criminal policy will only lead to more suffering and slow death for civilians in the Gaza Strip, and demanded the international community, the United Nations, and all human rights and humanitarian bodies to urgently intervene to stop these crimes, end the unjust siege, and hold Israel accountable for its crimes that amount to genocide against the Palestinian people.
