
️JUST IN: Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat Al-Rishq:
“More than 60% of the martyrs are children, women, and the elderly. The genocide has left behind over 42,000 orphaned children, whose mother, father, or both were killed by the zionist army.
Children make up more than 47% of Gaza’s population, over one million human souls. The zionist military has not spared a single child from its aggression: killing them directly, maiming them, abducting them, forcing them to flee, and denying them healthcare through the systematic destruction of hospitals and medical centers. It goes without saying that an army that robs children of their right to life will not respect any of their other rights, including access to education and medical care.
The crime reached an unspeakable level when the occupying state sealed its siege on the Gaza Strip entirely. The siege does not primarily target resistance fighters, it targets newborns, the elderly, and the sick, whose lives depend on medical supplies and care.
The zionist military deepens its crime by targeting those who expose these facts, namely, journalists. Since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza, 226 journalists have been martyred.
What the occupying state is carrying out against Palestinian civilians clearly falls within the definition of genocide outlined in Article 2 of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which includes: mass killing, inflicting physical and mental harm, and deliberately imposing living conditions intended to destroy a population, all of which are demonstrably fulfilled in Gaza today.
The American weapon that carried out nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did so to force Japan into surrender, but surrender does not exist in the vocabulary of the rightful owners of Palestine, its indigenous people.
The pain of Gaza’s siege has surpassed that of Leningrad. The duration of this genocide and Gaza’s resilience in resisting every attempt to subjugate it have outlasted the Battle of Stalingrad. And its coming victory, God willing, will bring solace to the hearts of the believers. Gaza is the people who will scatter the seeds of freedom and announce the collapse of the zionist project in our region:
"[This is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in His promise — but most of the people do not know."
The world must now make a choice: stand on the side of humanity and justice, or become complicit in the greatest act of genocide of the 21st century.”
Mike