Hajjah - SABA:
The Health and Environment Office and the Republican Hospital Authority in Hajjah Governorate held a protest on Saturday condemning the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in Gaza.
Participants in the protest — led by Deputy Governor Ahmed Al-Akhfash, Republican Hospital Authority President Dr. Ibrahim Al-Ashwal, and Director of the Health and Environment Office Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlani — denounced the systematic starvation policy in Gaza, describing it as surpassing the brutality of Nazism and fascism.
They stated that what is happening in Gaza constitutes an organized war crime carried out in full view of a world that claims to uphold freedom, justice, and human rights. Thousands of Palestinians, they said, have died from hunger or been massacred in so-called “death traps,” while thousands more face the same fate amid acute shortages of food, milk, and medicine.
The participants condemned the crimes committed by the Zionist entity against Gaza’s residents, noting that the number of “Martyrs of Livelihood” has risen to 1,655, with over 11,800 wounded, while famine and malnutrition have claimed the lives of 193 people — including 96 children.
They warned that more than 100,000 children aged two years and under — among them 40,000 infants — are at imminent risk of mass death within days due to the lack of infant formula and nutritional supplements, coupled with the continued closure of border crossings and the prevention of even the most basic necessities from entering the Strip.
A statement read by Dr. Al-Kahlani stressed that hospitals and health centers have recorded hundreds of new cases of acute, life-threatening malnutrition daily in recent days, with no capacity to treat them due to the collapse of the health sector and the absence of medical and nutritional supplies. The statement said the total death toll from famine and malnutrition stands at 193, including 96 children.
It accused the U.S. aid agency of becoming a criminal instrument contributing to engineered starvation and civilian killings, in a scheme that goes beyond hunger to dismantling the foundations of Palestinian life as a precursor to forced displacement.
The statement held the U.S. administration fully responsible for the policy of starvation and systematic genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli aggression, blockade, and prevention of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid from entering.
It urged the peoples of the Arab and Islamic nations and all free people worldwide to take urgent action and escalate popular protests across more cities and capitals, staging sit-ins outside UN offices and Israeli and U.S. embassies to expose their role in this organized crime.
The statement described events in Gaza as among the most heinous crimes of the modern era, declaring: “No to genocide, no to the siege of Gaza, no to starvation. Yes to prosecuting occupation leaders and condemning the Zionist aggression and its policy of starvation and extermination against civilians in the Gaza Strip.”
It called for the immediate and complete lifting of the criminal blockade and urgent international action to halt this slow-motion mass killing, demanding the entry of infant formula, nutritional supplements, medicines, medical supplies, and medical teams into Gaza, and the unconditional opening of border crossings.
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