DaysofPal- The Hamas Movement on Tuesday criticized the official Arab and Islamic silence regarding the escalating famine in the Gaza Strip, describing it as “disappointing to our people in the leaders of the nation,” and denounced the failure to implement the decisions of the Arab-Islamic Summit held in Riyadh in November 2023.
In a press statement, the Movement said, “Our Palestinian people are dying of hunger. It is time to break the restrictions, open the crossings, and deliver aid to the starving in Gaza.”
It warned that the famine in the Strip has entered “dangerous and unprecedented stages” after nearly five months of total closure, resulting in the deaths of about 100 civilians, including 80 children, due to starvation and malnutrition.
Hamas expressed astonishment at the ongoing silence, stressing that the official reactions from some countries “do not rise to the level of the catastrophe facing more than 2.25 million people in Gaza.”
The statement added that this complete silence encourages Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue his “policy of starvation and genocide,” accusing the occupation of enforcing a “criminal mechanism of killing and humiliation” through its blockade strategy, while thousands of aid trucks remain stalled on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing.
The Movement also condemned the disregard for the resolutions of the Arab-Islamic Summit and called on Arab and Islamic countries to “break the silence and take a historic stance” by activating all pressure tools to stop the starvation of innocent people, lift the siege, and allow immediate entry of humanitarian aid.
In conclusion, Hamas called for severing all forms of relations with the “fascist occupation entity,” including closing embassies, expelling Israeli ambassadors, ending all normalization efforts, and working to isolate the occupation internationally “as a first step toward deterring it and forcing it to stop its crimes against our oppressed Palestinian people.”
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