The occupation prevents the entry of aid and deprives the wounded of treatment after 100 days of its control over the Rafah crossing

The government media office in Gaza announced that Israel has been preventing the entry of humanitarian aid trucks into the Gaza Strip since it took control of the Rafah land crossing, which links Egypt and the Strip, for the 100th consecutive day.

The director of the office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said in a press conference held in the central Gaza Strip: “100 days since the occupation prevented the entry of all types of aid into the Gaza Strip.”

He added: "The occupation prevents the entry of medical supplies, health delegations, medicines and treatments, and also prevents the entry of various types of aid, which has contributed to a dangerous deterioration of the health and humanitarian situation."

He continued: "The closure of the crossing (by Israel) has caused the death of more than 1,000 children, patients and wounded people, and the humanitarian catastrophe is deepening in the Gaza Strip on all levels."

He pointed out that: "The occupation continues to close the Rafah border crossing after burning it, bulldozing it and putting it out of service, coinciding with the unprecedented deepening of the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip at all levels and aspects of life."

Al-Thawabat considered the closure of the crossing to be "a clear legal violation of international law, international humanitarian law, and all international agreements."

He stated that "one hundred days have passed since the occupation prevented 25,000 patients and wounded from traveling, who have travel requests and referrals for treatment abroad. Because of this ban, more than a thousand children, patients and wounded have died, and the lives of the rest are threatened with death due to the occupation's inhumane and immoral policy of preventing them from traveling to receive treatment."

Al-Thawabat held Israel and the US administration "fully responsible for the serious repercussions of closing the Rafah crossing, preventing the entry of medical supplies and health delegations, preventing the entry of aid, and the death of children and patients."

He called on the international community, all international and UN organizations, and the countries of the "free world" to "pressure the occupation and the American administration to stop the war of genocide, and to pressure towards opening the Rafah border crossing and stopping this serious humanitarian disaster."

On May 6, the Israeli army announced the start of a military operation in Rafah, ignoring international warnings of the repercussions of this on the lives of the displaced people in the city, and the following day it took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

(Anatolia)