The spokesman for the Islamist movement Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said this Monday that the new Israeli military campaign in northern Gaza is “a part of the genocide operation” against the Palestinian people and called on the international community to take measures to stop the offensive.
“What is happening is a part of the genocide operation in Gaza and the international community must take measures to stop the aggression,” Hamdan said in a statement to the Qatari channel Al Jazeera.
For the Islamist spokesman, the objective of this ongoing operation “is to try to transfer part of the population from the north of Gaza to the south.”
Likewise, he accused Israel of having begun at the beginning of the month the so-called ‘Generals Plan’ – proposed by retired generals – which seeks the forcible transfer of northern Gazans through a harsh siege and famine, while those who Those who stay will be considered militiamen.
Hamdan assured that “Israel’s objectives after a year (of war) have not been achieved,” in reference to the release of the Israeli hostages that Hamas kidnapped on October 7, 2023 and the defeat of the Islamist group.
The Hamas spokesperson stressed that, “despite all the circumstances in the Gaza Strip,” the group will continue its “resistance operations” and “expand” them.
At the beginning of the month, the Israeli Army began a new ground offensive in the north of the Palestinian enclave – the third since the war broke out – which has caused more than 342 deaths.
A group of Israeli human rights NGOs denounced today that the Army is trying to apply the ‘Generals’ Plan’ and requested the mediation of the international community to prevent it from being carried out.
For its part, the UN denounced yesterday that, since October 1, it has not been able to bring food, medicine or fuel into northern Gaza, due to the closure by the Israeli authorities of the two Erez crossings, on the northern border of Gaza. with Israel.
Today, COGAT, the Israeli military organization that manages civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, said it had allowed the entry of 30 trucks with flour and food from the World Food Program. EFE
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