Hamas has condemned the “brutal” Israeli shelling of a school in Gaza City on Friday, which killed several Palestinians, calling it another “deliberate” war crime and a blatant violation of the ceasefire.
In a statement on Saturday, the Gaza-based resistance group also called out the “international silence and failure” to stop these crimes.
“The artillery strike carried out by the fascist Israeli occupation army on a school sheltering displaced civilians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which resulted in the killings of several citizens, most of them children, is a brutal crime against innocent civilians and a flagrant, repeated violation of the ceasefire agreement,” read the statement.
The terrorist Israeli regime, it added, “continues its violations of the ceasefire by deliberately and continuously targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 400 martyrs since the agreement was announced over two months ago, amid an international silence and failure to act against these crimes.”
Hamas emphasized that the occupation does not stop at targeting civilians, but deepens the humanitarian catastrophe by preventing ambulances and medical teams from reaching the sites of attacks to rescue and treat the wounded.
The resistance group warned that the criminal behavior “amounts to compounded war crimes and a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.”
Hamas also urged the mediators guaranteeing the agreement and the US administration to fulfill their responsibilities regarding these violations and to intervene immediately to halt the attempts of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war-criminal cabinet to impose equations that contradict and clearly undermine the agreement.
