Blinken, Austin letter to 'Israel' recipe for more massacres: Factions
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Palestinian factions denounce Blinken and Austin's letter to the occupation, confirming that Washington is complicit in the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians look at the damage after an Israeli strike hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2024. (AP)
Palestinian factions denounced, on Wednesday, the letter US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addressed to the Israeli occupation after they demanded that measures be taken to address the deteriorating situation in the Strip amid a new Israeli attack and siege of the northern Gaza Strip.
For his part, Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat al-Rishq confirmed that Blinken and Austin's letter to the occupation regarding increasing the amount of aid provided to the Gaza Strip is "a cover for the fascist government."
Al-Rishq said that "the one-month deadline mentioned in Blinken and Austin's letter, in light of the occupation's siege and preventing sufficient aid from reaching the entire Gaza Strip and its total absence in the north, makes the US administration fully responsible for the continuation of the crimes of starvation, thirst, and death from diseases affecting thousands in the Gaza Strip."
He pointed out that "the card of increasing the amount of aid that the US administration is waving is an exposed attempt to clear its image and reputation stained with the blood of the Palestinian people."
Al-Rishq pointed out that "the US administration is not demanded to send messages to the occupation government, rather it is demanded to halt support [to Israel] and full complicity with it in the war of genocide that it has been waging against the Palestinian people for more than a whole year.”
He also called for pressuring “Netanyahu and his extremist government by all means to stop the aggression.”
It is noteworthy that Blinken and Austin's message to the occupation specified certain steps that "Israel" must take within 30 days, including allowing the entry of a minimum of 350 trucks into the Strip daily, imposing periods of cessation in the fighting to allow the delivery of aid, and canceling “evacuation orders” for Palestinian civilians "when there is no need for them."
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Washington weeping over Gaza sheer insolence
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that "the US administration, the main partner in the war of extermination, weeping over the humanitarian situation in Gaza is evidence of its boundless sheer insolence."
The Front added in a statement that the criminal US administration "will not be able to efface this shame and must bear the consequences of its actions over supporting the Israeli occupation."
This comes as the United States of America provides comprehensive support to "Israel", which is committing crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, while at the same time trying to introduce itself differently by providing humanitarian aid to the Strip.
The Israeli occupation continues to impose its siege on the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip for the twelfth consecutive day, as the camp suffers from difficult humanitarian conditions as a result of the siege and ongoing military operations.
Earlier, the Reuters news agency reported that food supplies have decreased sharply since the occupation imposed new customs conditions on humanitarian aid.
Read more: IOF tighten Jabalia siege, escalate attacks on Northern Gaza
