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The US is “directly responsible” for the shedding of innocent blood in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israeli genocide, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement said on Wednesday.
“In two days of Israeli aggression, more than a thousand of our people were killed and wounded, and the terrorist Netanyahu government continues to disregard humanitarian laws and norms and denies signed agreements,” said Hamas. “The US administration bears direct responsibility for the innocent blood being shed in the Gaza Strip, including nearly 200 children and 100 women, killed by the Israeli terrorist and occupation machine, which receives political and military support from Washington.”
The movement pointed out that, “The brutal crimes committed by the occupation army — including indiscriminate shelling, targeting defenceless civilians, the siege and starvation — are war crimes and genocide that require urgent action to save humanity’s dignity, tarnished by months of silence and inaction.”
Hamas called on the mediators Egypt and Qatar to “uphold their responsibilities in controlling this brutal aggression.”
Furthermore, said Hamas, Arab and Islamic countries should “take urgent action at all levels to support our people in the Gaza Strip, and to activate pressure and support tools necessary to halt the aggression and lift the unjust siege [the Palestinians].”
Israeli air attacks and shelling since dawn on Tuesday have killed at least 436 Palestinians, and wounded almost 700 more as of yesterday, said the Health Ministry in Gaza. The US gave the green light for Israel to resume its murderous offensive against the Palestinians in the enclave, the White House confirmed on Tuesday.
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