The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) described the Israeli occupation army’s burning of the departures building at the Rafah border crossing as a “criminal act,” and said that it cuts off “the Palestinians’ communication with the outside world.”
The occupation army had burned the departures hall and a number of facilities on the Palestinian side of the Rafah land crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, earlier today, Monday, the second day of Eid al-Adha, about 40 days after taking control of it on May 7.
In a press statement issued by the movement, it considered that causing the Rafah crossing to be out of service after burning the departure hall “a criminal act and barbaric behavior that comes within the framework of the ongoing war of genocide against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas blamed the occupation army “for the consequences of this crime, which cuts off Palestinian communication with the outside world and deprives thousands of sick and wounded people from traveling to receive treatment abroad.”
The movement called for broad international condemnation of “this Nazi behavior, which constitutes a clear-cut war crime.”
It also called for effective international action “to open the crossing, facilitate travel for our citizens, and facilitate the entry of emergency food and relief aid into the Strip, which is being subjected to a deliberate Zionist war of starvation.”
Tel Aviv continues its aggression against Gaza, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to end the Rafah invasion, take measures to prevent genocide, and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.
