Doha - Saba:
Osama Hamdan, a leader in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), confirmed that the Zionist enemy is committing crimes of genocide and starvation against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which constitute a crime against humanity before the eyes and ears of the world.
Hamdan said in a press statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) on Monday evening that the government of the war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, bears full responsibility for the lives of the Zionist entity's prisoners held by the resistance, due to its intransigence and refusal to reach a ceasefire agreement, and its continued escalation of the siege and prevention of food, medicine, and water from reaching the Gaza Strip.
Hamdan pointed out that the captive Israeli soldier, Eviatar David, is suffering from a deterioration in his health as a result of the enemy's policy of tightening the siege, considering that the criminal Netanyahu, who is wanted by international justice, is responsible for these results.
He added that the Palestinian resistance treats the Israeli enemy's prisoners in accordance with Islamic principles and humanitarian conventions, stressing that they "experience the same suffering as the people of Gaza, eating what they eat and drinking what they drink." The Hamas leader criticized the blatant bias of the US administration and some Western countries toward the Israeli entity, and their disregard for the suffering of the Palestinian people and prisoners in enemy prisons, stressing that this duplicity represents a "lame" policy that applies double standards.
Hamdan reiterated Hamas's readiness to respond to any request from the International Committee of the Red Cross to deliver medicine and food to Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while calling at the same time for the permanent opening of humanitarian corridors for the passage of aid to the entire population of the Strip.
He also called on the Security Council to assume its legal and humanitarian responsibilities and adopt binding resolutions to halt the aggression and blockade and open the crossings. He emphasized the need to pressure the Zionist enemy to halt the policy of mass starvation, which amounts to a "war crime."
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