Israel’s Minister of Defense says that the blockade is a “pressure liver” against Hamas and there are no plans to relieve it.
Hamas has accused Israel to openly use hunger as a gun, one day after Israel’s Minister of Defense promised to maintain a blockade to enter Gaza.
Help deliveries in the Palestinian territory have stopped since the week of March 2 before Israel broke a high temporary fire by restarting aerial bombardment on March 18 and then relaunching its terrestrial assault.
Speaking on Wednesday, Israeli defense minister Israel Katz described the blockade as a “main pressure lever” against Hamas, saying that there were no plans to relieve restrictions, despite the UN warnings that malnutrition is working quickly in Gaza.
In response, Hamas condemned Katz’s comments as “a public admission to commit a war crime.”
Israel is “depriving innocent civilians of the basic needs of life, including food, medicine, water and fuel, during the seventh consecutive week,” the group said in a statement published on Telegram on Thursday.
“We renew our calls so that the international community takes measures to stop hunger and blocking imposed on the Gaza Strip,” he added.
In March 2024, the United Nations Court of Nations ruled that Israel must guarantee the delivery of essential aid, food, water, fuel and medical supplies, to Gaza. Israel has repeatedly challenged the binding order, claiming that Hamas misuse helps.
‘Food consumption that deteriorates very
According to Israel’s tin station, Israeli defense figures estimate that Gaza’s remote food supplies could be exhausted within a month.
The Israeli army is making a rain of ideas to deliver help “without reaching Hamas”, including the proposals of “stationary help centers” administered by international organizations in areas insured by Israeli forces, they can report.
Nour Odeh de Al Jazeera, who informs Amman, said that the sources in UN agencies have told him that Israel wants to approve previously who receives the help of help research beneficiaries in advance.
“We have already heard from the United Nations that this is something that cannot be acceptable,” he said.
Reports occur when the UN increases warnings about Deamer in Gaza.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA) reported that 3,696 children were recently admitted to acute malnutrition in March, an increase of 80 percent as of February.
“The consumption of food in Gaza has deteriorated sharply due to the blockade in the entry of humanitarian aid and other critical supplies now in its seventh week,” said Ocha.
Odeh added: “This is the official Israeli policy: without food, without water, without help for Gaza, while Israel takes more and more than the land of the territory.”
