Palestinian group blames US and Israel for Rafah aid massacre

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement has condemned what it calls a “Zionist-American crime” following the killing of Palestinians attempting to collect aid in Gaza.

In a statement posted on Telegram, the group accused Israel and its US backers of carrying out a deliberate campaign of persecution, saying the attack reflects “a systematic policy of persecuting our people and practising the most heinous forms of oppression and injustice against them”.

The group also blasted what it described as international silence over Israel’s ongoing siege and starvation tactics in Gaza. It said global powers are complicit in “genocide and ethnic cleansing”, pointing to what it called the latest atrocity — “the heinous Zionist massacre of starving and besieged people as they were heading to receive aid in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah”.

The comments come as outrage grows over repeated Israeli attacks on civilians seeking food and water, with little international accountability.