DayofPal– The Hamas Movement affirmed that the global celebration of World Refugee Day, amid the ongoing war of extermination and starvation in Gaza, places the international community before political, legal, humanitarian, and moral responsibilities to put an end to the Israeli crimes.
In a press statement issued on Friday, Hamas stated that this year’s World Refugee Day comes at a time when the Israeli Zionist occupation is escalating its war of extermination and starvation against the people in Gaza, committing daily massacres and crimes against the displaced and starving refugees.
Hamas added: “The terrorist occupation government has turned relief operations for the starving into death traps and ambushes, where our Palestinian people are killed at the gates of the criminal American-Zionist-controlled checkpoints distributing humanitarian aid—in the most horrific forms of bloody revenge killings and violations of all international laws, norms, and humanitarian values.”
The movement pointed out that the continued aggressive war by the Israeli occupation against refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, through systematic destruction and displacement, is a dangerous escalation in targeting the refugee issue.
“it’s only an attempt to erase its features, as a prelude to liquidating our national cause. However, our people will not allow this and will stand as a formidable barrier against it,” it added.
Hamas affirmed that the right of return for refugees to the homes they were displaced from by the Israeli occupation is an individual and collective right, recognized by international laws, charters, and UN resolutions.
No one has the authority to relinquish, compromise, negotiate away, or abandon this right. The movement reiterated its rejection of all solutions aiming to erase the refugee issue or end the right of return.
It also categorically rejected all Israeli attempts, supported by the U.S. administration, to abolish, obscure, or eliminate the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), or to transfer its mandate to any other entity, especially in the distribution of aid and relief.
Hamas emphasized the necessity for the agency, as a UN institution, to fully uphold its responsibilities in distributing aid, serving refugees, and providing them with necessary services.
The movement reaffirmed that the Israeli Zionist occupation of Palestine land and its perpetration of crimes of displacement, discrimination, and apartheid against the people for over seven decades is the root cause of the ongoing tragedy and suffering of millions of Palestinian refugees, both inside and in the diaspora.
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