Hamas appeals to international community to pressure Israel into lifting humanitarian blockade

Hamas said in a statement it is calling “on all countries of the world and the United Nations institutions to pressure the occupation to end the systematic starvation crime,” Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday.

It also said Israel’s use of “starvation as a weapon” against Palestinians in Gaza represents a “contempt for the international community”.

“The UNRWA Commissioner’s statements about the occupation’s use of UNRWA employees as human shields revealed the brutality of this entity,” the statement went on to say. “We call on all countries of the world and United Nations institutions to pressure the occupation to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.”

It also renewed a call to Arab and Muslim countries to provide urgent relief to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.