The Government Media Office announced Sunday morning that 26 citizens were killed and more than 115 others injured in a new massacre perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against starving civilians gathered at humanitarian aid distribution sites supervised by an American-Israeli company.
The office explained, in a statement received by Safa News Agency, that the toll is preliminary and the number is likely to rise.
He pointed out that the total number of martyrs at aid sites has risen to 39 and more than 220 wounded in less than a week, a bloody scene that reflects the nature of these areas as mass death traps rather than humanitarian relief points.
The media office emphasized to the entire world that what is taking place is a systematic and malicious use of aid as a tool of war, employed to blackmail starving civilians and forcibly gather them in exposed killing points, managed and monitored by the occupation army and funded and politically covered by the occupation and the US administration, which bears full moral and legal responsibility for these crimes.
He added that reports have proven that “aid through the buffer zones” is a failed and dangerous project, serving as a cover for the occupation’s security and military policies and used to falsely promote claims of a “humanitarian response,” even as the occupation closes official crossings and prevents the arrival of genuine relief from neutral international bodies.
He pointed out that “this new crime, with this large number of daily victims, is further evidence of the occupation’s continued implementation of a systematic plan of genocide, through pre-emptive starvation followed by mass killing at distribution points. This is a fully-fledged war crime under international law, particularly Article 2 of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
He called on the United Nations and the Security Council to assume their legal and humanitarian responsibilities, open official crossings immediately and without restrictions, and enable UN and international organizations to provide aid without interference or supervision from the occupation.
The office called for the urgent formation of an independent international investigation committee to document these massacres, including murders at aid distribution sites, and hold those responsible accountable before international courts.
He expressed his categorical rejection of all forms of “buffer zones” or “humanitarian corridors” established under the supervision of the occupation or with American funding, warning of the danger of continuing this deadly model, which has proven to be a trap for starving civilians, not a means of escape.
The media office urged Arab and Islamic countries, as well as free nations around the world, to take urgent and effective action to secure independent and safe humanitarian corridors away from the occupation, and to rescue the remaining residents of Gaza, who are besieged and facing famine and daily massacres.
