The Hamas Movement affirmed in a statement that "the continued action of the Israeli occupation army in preventing UNRWA teams from reaching northern Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid confirms its determination to pursue a fascist war of starvation against Palestinian civilians, as well as a policy of prevention and systematic targeting of all means to relieve them and deliver essential aid, aiming to punish our Palestinian people and push them to migrate from their land under the pressure of starvation and ongoing massacres."
It added: "We demand that the international community and the United Nations take immediate action and pressure the criminal Zionist entity to stop its declared crime of using starvation as a weapon, preventing the delivery of aid and targeting relief workers."
It emphasized the "necessity of standing against its targeting of UNRWA and taking concrete steps to hold it accountable for its ongoing crimes against unarmed civilians in Gaza and against all humanitarian values."
