MADRID 30 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has urged this Monday the United Nations and Arab and Islamic countries to implement an emergency plan to protect from the cold the “hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians” who have been forced to leave their homes. homes as a result of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Hamas has appealed to the “humanitarian duty” of the UN and the international community in the face of the increase in deaths caused by the strong cold wave and bad weather, including those of several babies in recent days.
“Urgent action is required to provide aid to our people in the Gaza Strip, who have been subjected to the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing for fifteen months,” Hamas said, according to the newspaper ‘Filastin’.
Likewise, it has demanded help from these organizations to satisfy the basic needs of the displaced, as well as to “force the fascist occupation to stop its aggression” and “the inhumane living conditions” it has imposed.
In the last few hours, the Gazan authorities have reported the death of seven babies among the displaced population as a result of the fall of winter and low temperatures and in the midst of Israel’s attacks on the few medical centers that remain operational in the area. Palestinian enclave.
“We had already warned more than once of the danger of the arrival of the winter season and the icy waves, coinciding with the tragic reality that our people are experiencing, subjected to massacres, extermination, the destruction of their homes and vital sectors, and exposed to displacement,” they have denounced.
The Gazan Government has warned that these figures will increase in the coming days due to the low temperatures that are expected if the situation of all these people is not resolved, condemned to spend the winter in precarious tents after seeing their houses destroyed by the Israeli bombings.
The authorities of the Strip have reported this Monday the death of 45,541 people, as well as some 108,300 wounded, as a result of the Israeli offensive, unleashed in response to the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.