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In another bloodiest premeditated massacre, Israeli warplanes and drones launched salvos of gunfire and missiles targeting a crowd of Palestinians who were waiting for the delivery of food and humanitarian relief supplies at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza. Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians and targeting them with military artillery at aid centres.
More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on aid deliveries in recent weeks. Hunger and severe malnutrition are widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from destroying and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines, and other humanitarian aid by the Israeli occupation army.
Ambassador of the state of Palestine to Zimbabwe, Dr Tamer Almassri said the Biden administration is responsible for the continuation of the Nazi-like massacres committed with US weapons and political support, protecting the criminal entity of Israel from any international accountability.
The so-called air dropping of aid has killed over five Palestinians and injured others after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp.
The airdropping of aid is rather flashy propaganda than a humanitarian service. Instead, Israel should be forced to allow humanitarian aid to cross into Gaza through land borders and a ceasefire be implemented immediately to protect civilian lives. The so-called civilized world cannot claim to offer aid and at the same time fund Israel with weapons to carry out its genocide against Palestinians. These double standards should be stopped.
The international community and the United Nations have failed to take action against the Israeli occupation army, which serves as a green light for committing more heinous crimes, within the framework of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.
Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation. The genocide war has pushed 90% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while most of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.
The death toll from the Israeli occupation’s genocidal war has now risen to 31,400 martyrs, with 73,134 individuals injured since October 7. Over 8,000 Palestinians are still under the rubble and are considered dead.