6/16/2024–|Last updated: 6/16/202405:54 AM (Mecca time)
The government media office in the Gaza Strip considered – on Saturday – that Israel’s ban on bringing sacrificial animals into the Strip “deprives hundreds of thousands of families of the opportunity to commemorate Eid al-Adha and slaughter sacrifices as part of Islamic religious rituals.”
The office said, “The occupation’s prevention of bringing sacrifices into Gaza reveals the ugliness of the criminal face of the occupation and the American administration towards supporting genocide and depriving our Palestinian people of celebrating Eid Al-Adha.”
He continued, “The occupation is committing a new crime that is added to its black record by preventing the entry of sacrificial animals into Gaza by closing all crossings of the Gaza Strip in conjunction with the advent of Eid al-Adha, including its occupation and closure of the Rafah border crossing, and the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing.”
He added, “The crime of preventing the entry of sacrificial animals into the Gaza Strip represents an obscene disregard for basic Islamic and humanitarian values and human rights,” stressing that “moral and legal responsibility requires the international community to seriously intervene to stop the genocidal war and stop this blatant violation of the rights of Muslims and human rights.”
The government media also held Israel and the American administration fully responsible for “the continuation of these crimes against the Islamic religion and against our Palestinian people, whether the genocidal war or preventing the introduction of sacrifices and depriving Muslims of celebrating Eid al-Adha.”
He called on the international community, the United Nations and international organizations to put pressure on the occupation and the American administration to stop the genocidal war, open the crossings, cancel this inhumane decision, and intensify efforts to break the siege on the Gaza Strip and provide urgent aid to them.
It is noteworthy that since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, Israel has closed the Gaza Strip’s crossings and prevented the entry of goods, while allowing the entry of very small and limited amounts of humanitarian aid last November, through the Rafah land border crossing with Egypt, before it took control of the Palestinian side of it. On the seventh of last May.