Gaza - Saba:
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip said that indicators of famine and humanitarian collapse are escalating at a terrifying pace, threatening the lives of more than 2.4 million civilians in the stricken Gaza Strip.
In a statement, it added that field facts and the accelerating collapse in various sectors show that the minimum daily requirement to halt this collapse is the entry of 500 trucks of urgent relief, medical, and food aid, in addition to 50 fuel trucks to operate bakeries, hospitals, and water and sewage pumping stations.
It said: "We are facing a full-fledged humanitarian disaster, with dozens of bakeries shutting down, hospitals gradually going out of service, and residents being deprived of the most basic necessities of life, including food, water, electricity, and medicine."
He added: "This deliberate suffocation is causing widespread hunger and malnutrition, especially among children, the sick, and the elderly, in a scene reminiscent of the harshest chapters of siege and genocide in modern history." He continued: "This catastrophic situation is not the result of natural disasters, but rather a direct consequence of systematic policies pursued by the Israeli occupation, targeting civilians in their livelihoods and bodies, in flagrant violation of all international norms and conventions, most notably the Geneva Conventions, which criminalize the use of food and medicine as weapons of war."
He emphasized that the continuation of this dangerous humanitarian situation constitutes a crime against humanity by all standards and places the international community before its legal and moral responsibilities.
He pointed out that the failure to act to save civilians from famine and slow death is a stain on the entire world. He condemned in the strongest terms the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against civilians, including killing, displacement, migration, and genocide.
He held the Israeli occupation and countries involved in the genocide, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the continuation of these crimes and their grave repercussions and effects.
He called on the international community and all countries of the world to pressure the criminal Israeli occupation to fully and immediately open the crossings and allow the entry of at least 500 aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks daily, without delay or conditions.
He also called for enabling UN and international relief organizations to operate freely and safely inside the Gaza Strip, without violating international humanitarian law and universal humanitarian standards. He also called for holding the Israeli occupation accountable for the crime of using the blockade and starvation as a tool of genocide.
He stated that the world's silence is no longer acceptable, and time is running out. Either the international community acts now to save the remaining civilian lives, or it becomes complicit in one of the most heinous crimes of the modern era.
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