THE PALESTINIAN group Hamas called on Friday the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification famine confirmation in Gaza “important,” adding it arrived “very late following repeated warnings.”
“We have repeatedly warned that the policies of blockade, systematic starvation, and the denial of food, medicine, and water to our people constitute a full-fledged genocide. Today, UN reports confirm to the entire world the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe our people are experiencing,” it said in a statement on Telegram.
“The occupation’s criminal denial of this documented fact, and its false claims that there is no famine in Gaza, reveal a criminal mentality that deliberately lies to cover up the murder by starvation practised against children, women, and the sick, in flagrant defiance of all international laws and norms,” it added.
The resistance group also added that the international community “bears an urgent legal and moral responsibility to stop crimes against humanity and save more than two million people facing genocide, starvation, and the systematic destruction of all necessities of life”.