Ramallah (UNA/WAFA) – Palestinian National Council Speaker Rouhi Fattouh said that the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip is a direct result of the occupation government's continued prevention of the entry of emergency aid, especially that intended to cope with harsh weather conditions, including rescue vehicles, equipment, medicine and petroleum products, in flagrant violation of all rules of international humanitarian law..
In a statement issued on Tuesday, he stressed that this deliberate ban, coinciding with harsh weather conditions, ongoing bombardment, collapsing buildings, and flooded tents, deepens the suffering of tens of thousands of displaced families and embodies a systematic policy of collective punishment that falls within the framework of a war of extermination, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement that has not ceased..
He added that the American side, as the sponsor of the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, bears political and legal responsibility for its continued disregard of the blatant violations of the ceasefire, and its silence regarding the failure of the extremist right-wing government in Israel to abide by its commitments, thus providing political cover for the continuation of crimes against our people..
He stressed that the international community's silence and inability to impose the entry of aid and stop the aggression is no longer just inaction, but has become complicity and partnership in the crime, and a stain on the forehead of a world that claims to be civilized and democratic while civilians in Gaza are left to face death under bombardment and harsh weather conditions..
The head of the Palestinian National Council called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and compel the occupying government to allow the immediate and unrestricted entry of mobile homes, medical equipment, and all humanitarian and medical aid, to ensure the provision of a minimum level of protection and a safe life for civilians and to stop them from facing a slow death under bombardment and harsh weather conditions.
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