Israel has been using starvation, thirst to exterminate the people of Gaza, Hamas warns

Israel is using the weapons of starvation and thirst against the people of the Gaza Strip by preventing the entry of food, water and medicine, as part of its ongoing extermination for more than a year, Hamas said yesterday.

In a recorded speech, Hamas official Osama Hamdan said: “The occupation continues to use the weapon of starvation and thirst against our people in the Gaza Strip, depriving them of food, water, medicine, and treatment.”

“For over 50 days, the occupation has prevented the entry of any aid to those besieged in the north, resulting in famine, which has ravaged our people and families, and our children have died from severe hunger,” he said.

“The weapon of starvation that the occupation has been using against our people for more than a year is one of its brutal tools used to implement their General’s Plan, and the most heinous barbaric method that only war criminals and those without a conscience and humanity would resort to. This proves to the world, time and time again, the truth of this Zionist entity.”

“Due to the lack of the most basic elements of human life, even the wounded and injured are left in the streets and under the rubble of destroyed buildings. The occupation prevents medical crews, ambulances and the civil defence teams from reaching them, after destroying all the hospitals and health centres. The suffering and human tragedy suffered by our people will intensify and deepen with the approach of winter,” he warned.

Hamdan pointed out that “the war of genocide, ethnic cleansing, horrific massacres, starvation, and thirst committed by the Zionist occupation for the 401st consecutive day against more than 2 million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip continues.”

“The occupation is committing the most heinous forms of killing, abuse, arrest, torture and displacement against Gaza, and is depriving them of all the basics of human life. It is committing enforced disappearance against thousands of detainees, in an aggressive war that is unparalleled in modern history.”

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