Hussein Al-Sheikh denounced on Twitter the “criminal aggression against our people” in the coastal enclave, which is inhabited by more than two million people. Photo: Latin Press
The Palestine Liberation Organization denounced the international silence in the face of the new Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the deaths of more than thirty people, including six minors.
The Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, denounced on Twitter the “criminal aggression against our people” in the coastal enclave, which is inhabited by more than two million people.
He also refused to desecrate holy sites, shortly after more than a thousand Israelis entered the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, an action Palestinians consider a provocation.
Yesterday, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry criticized the attack, considering it “an embodiment of the arrogance of the Israeli army and an extension of its racist colonial mentality.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the neighboring country is using the occupied territories as a training camp and the Palestinian citizen as a target for shooting.
The President of the Palestinian Supreme Court, Mahmoud al-Habash, expressed himself in similar terms.
And he wrote on Twitter, “All words and phrases are not enough to express the anger that hangs in the hearts of the Palestinians and the free peoples of the world at this barbaric aggression.”
On Friday, the armed forces in Tel Aviv began bombing suspected targets of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, which responded with missile strikes on the territory of the neighboring country.
Khaled Mansour and Tayseer al-Jabari, the leaders of that group, were killed in separate Israeli attacks. Since then, the deaths of six minors and four women, including an elderly woman, have been reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Sunday that the offensive “will continue as long as necessary”, although domestic sectors are calling for it to end immediately.
Gantz allowed up to 25,000 soldiers to be mobilized for operations, 4,000 of whom have already been called up, according to various media outlets.
Salama Maarouf, head of the government’s media office in Gaza, warned of the destruction of 650 homes, 45 of them entirely due to Israeli bombing.
For his part, Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, warned of the imminent suspension of medical services due to the paralysis of the only power station in the Strip due to the lack of fuel.
Several days ago, Israel prevented diesel and basic products from entering the coastal strip.
(with information from Prensa Latina)
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