Hamas raises alarm as Israel begins bombardment of Rafah, tasks international community to halt genocide

Admin I Tuesday, May 06, 2024

 

GAZA – Hamas has called on the International community to prevail on Israel to stop ongoing genocide in Gaza following the decision of Israel to launch a ground operation in Rafah even when Hamas  agreed to a proposal for ceasefire in Gaza.

 

Hamas said it agreed to the proposal guaranteed by the United States, Qatar and Egypt  to stop the ground operation in Rafah. 

 

“The actions of the “israeli” occupation forces in launching a ground assault on Rafah, occupying and destroying the Rafah crossing, and closing the “Kerem Shalom” crossing—the only outlet for the Gaza Strip—is a humanitarian disaster targeting 2.5 million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip and poses a direct threat to more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians, including 400,000 citizens who have fled from areas deemed safe by the occupation just yesterday.  Rafah is experiencing the largest displacement movement in modern history”, Hamas said, adding that occupation and closure of the Rafah land crossing and the “Kerem Shalom” commercial crossing, along with conducting ground military operations in Rafah, reveal the occupation’s intentions to commit massacres and a humanitarian catastrophe.

Hamas said by cutting off food, medical, and humanitarian supply lines and blocking the movement of travelers for the wounded and citizens, preventing the entry of food trucks that are insufficient even if they enter daily to meet Rafah’s needs by 5%, in addition to the remaining hospitals and health centers going out of service underpins the intention of Israel. 

“This aggression is clear and premeditated to foil the efforts of mediators and challenge the will of the international and regional community, and the popular will especially after the resistance leadership, along with our factions and popular forces, agreed to a proposal to stop the aggression and exchange prisoners; which confirms the zionist government’s lack of desire to stop the aggression and achieve a prisoner exchange deal, thus threatening the negotiation process and leaving the occupation to continue the genocide against our people”, the statement said. 

Hamas called on the countries of the world, international institutions, and the United Nations to intervene immediately to save the lives of 2.5 million citizens threatened by murder, starvation, massacres, and genocide war in the largest humanitarian disaster the world is witnessing now.

“We urge international, regional, official Arab, and Islamic popular mobilization to stop the genocide immediately and curb the occupation’s terrorism through sit-ins in squares, cities, and universities, cutting off supplies to the occupation by land, sea, and air, and holding it accountable for its crimes in international courts, as we call on the resistance in all arenas and fronts to escalate their resistance against the zionist occupation and its supporters until the aggression against our people stops”.