'Israel' killing clan members distributing aid in Gaza: Statement
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The Israeli occupation forces are killing the members of Gaza's clans working on distributing aid to hunger-stricken areas.
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Palestinians crowd together as they wait for food distribution in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November 8, 2023 (AP)
The Israeli occupation forces continue to assassinate members of the clan committees that provide assistance to the people of Gaza for their refusal to cooperate with the Israeli regime.
The Supreme Council for Palestinian Clan Affairs said that the Israeli occupation forces assassinated several clan committee members at the Kuwait Roundabout while they were waiting to receive humanitarian aid to organize its distribution to hunger-stricken civilians in the northern Gaza Strip.
The assassinations "express the extent of the fascist occupation's anger toward Palestine and also express the extent of its helplessness and failure to undermine the unity of the Palestinian internal front."
Aakif Al-Masri, the Commissioner General of the Supreme Council for Clan Affairs, said that the Israeli occupation continues to target clan committees and punish them for refusing to cooperate with it and obstructing its plans to subvert the Palestinian cause.
Al-Masri stressed that the clan's members in the Gaza Strip work as one man and they prohibit any communication with the occupation no matter the cost and the greatness of the sacrifices.
"Israel" recently assassinated Fayeq Al-Mabhouh, who cooperated with UNRWA and contributed to the attainment of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, particularly in the north, and emerged successful with the help of local clans and popular committees.
Al-Mabhouh was staying in Al-Shifa Hospital when Israeli occupation forces stormed the medical complex, demanded his surrender, and then killed him after he refused to succumb to their threats.
The Gaza Government Media Office said Al-Mabhouh was working purely within the civilian humanitarian frame, and he should have been protected instead of targeted as per international law.
The Islamic Jihad Resistance movement said the Israeli occupation forces stormed the al-Shifa Medical Complex where Al-Mabhouh was staying and assassinated him inside.
The PIJ held Washington and Western governments loyal to "Israel", as well as the silence of Arab regimes, that have both allowed the occupation to commit this genocide against Palestinians.
'Israel' 'systematically, deliberately' blocking aid to Gaza: Oxfam
Anti-poverty charity Oxfam on Monday accused "Israel" of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, in violation of international humanitarian law.
The non-governmental organization said in a report that "Israel" continued to "systematically and deliberately block and undermine any meaningful international humanitarian response" in the Palestinian territory.
It pointed out that "Israel" was defying an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January to boost aid in Gaza, and was failing its legal responsibility to protect people in the land it occupies.
"Israeli authorities are not only failing to facilitate the international aid effort but are actively hindering it. We believe that Israel is failing to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide."
Oxfam noted that "unjustifiably inefficient" inspection rules were causing aid trucks trying to get into Gaza to be stuck in queues for 20 days on average.
This comes as 1.7 million Palestinians, 75% of Gaza's population, are at risk of famine, Oxfam warned.
