GAZA, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan) The Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip condemned the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) decision to suspend its operations in Gaza, calling it “dangerous, inhumane, and a violation of international law,” and demanded its immediate reversal.
In a statement released on Monday, the GMO expressed deep astonishment and strong condemnation of the Red Cross’s temporary suspension of its Gaza City office.
The statement emphasized that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza City are enduring unprecedented humanitarian suffering due to war, killings, siege, starvation, and destruction caused by Israel’s military campaign.
It described the ICRC’s move as a “catastrophic, irresponsible, and painful retreat from the humanitarian and moral role expected of the organization,” stressing that it fails the Palestinian people who are facing daily genocide.
The GMO warned that this decision leaves unarmed civilians without any real protection or humanitarian support in one of the most dangerous and devastated places on Earth.
“The International Committee of the ICRC is protected under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions. It is obligated to operate in conflict zones, not abandon them. Withdrawal at this critical time contradicts the core of its humanitarian mandate.”
The statement urged the ICRC to immediately reverse its unfair decision, resume its humanitarian duties in Gaza City, and increase its field presence and relief efforts, especially as winter approaches and hundreds of thousands of families lack shelter, food, water, and healthcare.
Finally, the GMO called on the ICRC to strengthen civilians’ resilience in Gaza instead of abandoning them, and to prove to the world that it remains a neutral humanitarian organization committed to its stated principles, not to political pressure from the occupying power.
