The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has denounced the latest Israeli decision to enforce road closures along the border with the Gaza Strip, stating that the regime’s ongoing measures against people living in the impoverished coastal sliver amount to “crimes against humanity.”
Faraan: “These measures have made more than two million Palestinians hostage to the occupying regime [of Israel], especially women and children with medical conditions and cancer patients who need treatment in hospitals in the West Bank and al-Quds,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement.
Barhoum also lambasted the international community’s failure to take an action aimed at ending Israeli violations against the besieged territory, emphasizing that “Gazans’ silence will not last forever.” “It is no longer acceptable to allow such a dangerous situation to continue,” the Hamas spokesman argued
He then called for an urgent and effective Arab and Islamic action to lift the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, and demanded solid support for the Palestinian nation’s steadfastness in the face of “the Israeli war machine.” Israeli authorities said on Wednesday night that road closures along the border with the Gaza Strip will remain in place on Thursday, for the third day in a row.
The closures came amid fears of an imminent attack by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, after Israeli forces arrested its West Bank leader Bassem Saadi on Monday night. UN report highlights crippling impact of 15 years of Israel’s Gaza siege
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli military said it was deploying 100 reservist troops and three conscript companies to assist in keeping settlers out of restricted areas under imminent threat of anti-tank guided missile fire or sniper attacks by Islamic Jihad.
