Gaza Government Media’s Office Speech May 7th 2024
Government Media Office:
The “israeli” occupation deliberately exacerbates the humanitarian situation by stopping the entry of aid and closing the Rafah and “Kerem Shalom” crossings, and targeting hospitals and schools with its aggression east of Rafah.
In continuation of the genocide war it wages against our Palestinian people across the Gaza Strip, from north to south, the occupation has decided to severely exacerbate the humanitarian situation. This includes a decision to kill more civilians, including children and women, with more than 35 martyrs in the last 12 hours. The occupation has also halted the entry of aid and closed the Rafah and “Kerem Shalom” crossings. It has put hospitals out of service and targeted schools sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people by designating them as targets.
The situation east of the Rafah governorate points to a genuine humanitarian disaster, not only in Rafah but extending to all the governorates of the Gaza Strip, which have been experiencing a tragic state of systematic starvation, deprivation, and a shortage of supplies and aid for seven continuous months. The occupation’s decision to halt aid and close the crossings is making the humanitarian situation disastrously worse, necessitating an immediate and urgent international intervention to pressure the occupation to stop this aggression, stop the bloodshed, and halt the genocide war against civilians, children, and women.
We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing murders committed by the “israeli” army against our Palestinian people. We also condemn the occupation army’s raids and closure of the Rafah and “Kerem Shalom” crossings, its decision to halt aid, and its policy of chaos among medical teams, the wounded, the sick, and the displaced, forcing them to evacuate hospitals and schools by threatening to target them. We urge the whole world to condemn this new crime of forced eviction of homes and properties and the threat to continue killing and committing massacres against civilians, especially children and women.
We hold the American administration, the international community, and the “israeli” occupation fully responsible for this ongoing aggression against the civilians of our Palestinian people, and for the continuation of the genocide in which the American administration is engaged and which the international community has failed to stop over the course of seven continuous months.
We demand that all free countries of the world pressure the occupation to stop the aggression on Rafah, stop the genocide war, and open the crossings for the movement of travelers, goods, and aid, before a real humanitarian disaster occurs in the eastern part of the Rafah governorate, a disaster for which the world would bear responsibility.
Government Media Office
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
