Hamas: Gaza Has Turned Into a Death Camp
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News agency, Osama Hamdan, a senior member of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, told Al jazeera that Israel continues to carry out genocide and starvation against the people of Gaza with support from the United States and international silence.
He pointed to joint efforts by Washington and Tel Aviv to divert UN Security Council sessions away from addressing Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and focus rather on prisoner issues. He reported that 180 people in Gaza have died from hunger so far, including 93 children.
The senior Hamas official added that during strikes targeting humanitarian aid seekers, 1,487 palestinians have been martyred and over 10,000 injured.
Hamdan stated that currently 96 percent of families in gaza face food insecurity. The region suffers severe shortages of infant formula and medical equipment needed to combat starvation.
Moreover, more than 22,000 trucks loaded with aid remain stuck at closed border crossings, deliberately blocked by Israel from entering Gaza.
He emphasized these figures should serve as a serious warning for Security Council members. “Today over two million Palestinians live under conditions so dire they are hard even to describe,” he said.
“Gaza has turned into a death camp,” Hamdan warned. “What is happening there today is worse than what occurred during the Holocaust.”
The official stressed the urgent need for an immediate halt to Israeli crimes and prosecution of those responsible. He noted these crimes continue not only in Gaza but also throughout the West Bank-and called on the international community to take a stand against them.
Hamdan also highlighted critical prison conditions faced by Palestinian detainees held by Israel. The number of Palestinian prisoners has reached 10,800, many subjected to severe physical and psychological torture. So far, 76 prisoners have died due to mistreatment or medical negligence while incarcerated.
The Hamas official said documented evidence shows systematic abuse targeting prisoners aimed at destroying both body and spirit within Israeli detention camps; however human rights organizations either remain silent or face suppression.
he added: “While Israel blocks medicine and food supplies reaching besieged Palestinians in Gaza it hypocritically claims concern for its own prisoners-yet israeli captives held by resistance groups consume exactly what starving Gazans eat.”
In closing, Hamdan urged Security Council members to pressure israel toward ending these atrocities. He reaffirmed Hamas’s readiness for constructive engagement regarding any requests allowing food aid access for Israeli captives in exchange for humanitarian relief entering Gaza’s population.
