Press Statement

Issued by the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas

Hamas received with great satisfaction appreciation the Human Rights Watch's report regarding the violations of the Israeli Occupation against the residents of the Gaza Strip and the demand for the protection of the Palestinians. The report further confirmed the facts of the involvement of the Israeli occupation in what appeared to be war crimes perpetrated against Palestinian demonstrators as well as the use of false and fabricated arguments and pretexts to justify and cover their deliberate killing and harm to Palestinians by using live and lethal bullets.

The findings of the report reflect a part of the reality of the suffering and injustice inflicted on the Palestinians by the unjust siege imposed on Gaza and its inhabitants twelve years ago. The suffering continues and escalates due to the flagrant form of Israeli violence threatening Palestinian life and rights through a long series of killings, sniping, starvation and siege, which constitute a flagrant and serious violation of international law and international humanitarian law that amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Therefore, the movement calls upon the relevant international institutions and organizations to adopt this report and assume its legal, humanitarian and moral responsibilities towards Gaza and its people under military occupation for five decades and an unjust siege for more than 12 years and call upon them to work seriously and effectively to hold Israel responsible and accountable for grave and serious violations against Palestinians and to work vigorously to end the siege of the Gaza Strip immediately and unconditionally.

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas

 June 17, 2018