The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Sunday that the Israeli army’s claims regarding the use of a headquarters belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for military purposes are a blatant lie.
The movement said, in a statement, that the occupation’s targeting of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City on Sunday is a complex crime carried out by the occupation government against the Palestinian people, and against the international community, the United Nations and its institutions.
The movement added that the occupation army’s claim that the center is being used for military purposes is a blatant lie, concealing the true intentions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government towards UNRWA.
On Sunday, 8 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the headquarters of the UNRWA Vocational Training College, west of Gaza City. The Israeli army said that its planes attacked members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the center of the Gaza Strip, claiming that they were working from inside buildings that had been used in the past at the headquarters. UNRWA for military purposes.
The movement pointed out that the occupation’s continued targeting of civilian sites in Gaza, including its targeting with heavy artillery around the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Rafah, which led to the martyrdom of more than 20 displaced civilians, is confirmation of the continuation of the crime of genocide and killing of the features of life in Gaza.
Hamas called on the international community and the United Nations to condemn these serious crimes and work to hold Israel and its leaders accountable for these policies through which they defy international laws and continue their war of extermination against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.