The Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Committee of the House of Representatives condemned the Zionist entity for preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the people of the Gaza Strip, considering it a new crime added to a long series of violations against the Palestinian people.
The committee affirmed in a statement that this aggressive behavior only reflects a systematic policy based on starvation and prohibited siege, and depriving civilians of their legitimate rights to food and medicine, in a flagrant violation of all international charters and covenants, foremost among them the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.
The committee held the Zionist entity fully responsible for the consequences of this crime and the resulting further humanitarian deterioration in the Strip, calling on the international community and the Security Council to assume their legal and moral responsibilities and to compel the occupation to open humanitarian corridors immediately.
The committee also called on Arab and Islamic countries and the League of Arab States to take practical positions that go beyond statements of condemnation, and to use diplomatic, economic, and legal pressure to stop the crimes against the Palestinian people.
Concluding its statement, the committee reaffirmed its firm stand alongside the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle, stressing that the Palestinian cause will remain a central issue for the Arab and Islamic nation, and that the occupation’s crimes will not undermine the determination, steadfastness, and resistance of the Palestinian people.