Hamas: We condemn American allegations regarding the looting of aid

SadaNews - Hamas stated that the allegations issued by the U.S. Central Command regarding the claimed looting of an aid truck in the Gaza Strip are false claims with no basis in reality.

The movement stressed in a statement today, Sunday, that these allegations come in the context of justifying the reduction of already limited humanitarian aid and covering up the international community's failure to end the siege and starving civilians in the Gaza Strip.

It said: "The police and security forces in Gaza have provided more than a thousand martyrs and hundreds of wounded while performing their duty to secure humanitarian relief convoys and ensuring that aid reaches those deserving of it. The manifestations of chaos and looting ended immediately after the withdrawal of the occupation forces, confirming that the occupation was the only entity that sponsored those gangs and managed the chaos that accompanied its presence."

Hamas added: "The movement affirms that none of the international or local institutions, nor even any of the drivers working in the relief convoys, have submitted any report or complaint regarding any incident of this kind, which proves that the scene to which the U.S. Central Command refers is fabricated and contrived to justify the policies of the blockade and reduce support."

It continued: "If the planes of the great power captured an alleged scene of a truck, they did not see or record the daily crimes of the Israeli occupation that the whole world witnesses and observes with its conscience and humanity."

Hamas questioned, "Did these American planes not monitor the martyrdom of 254 Palestinians since the ceasefire began, 91% of whom are civilians, including 105 children, 37 women, and 9 elderly, and the injury of 595 others, including 199 children, 136 women, and 32 elderly?"

These drones also did not observe the daily violations of the yellow line, with fire control over an area exceeding 35 square kilometers - about 10% of the area of the Strip - nor the systematic demolition and destruction of civilian homes in areas still under occupation!

They also did not monitor the entry of less than 9.4% of the agreed-upon fuel quantity, nor the occupation's control and prevention of the entry of essential proteins such as eggs, chicken, and meat, which civilians have been deprived of for two years, nor the suffering of the starving who find only a little aid while justice and international oversight are absent.

Furthermore, it did not observe that the average amount entering the Gaza Strip daily does not exceed 135 trucks of aid only, while the rest are commercial trucks that the exhausted cannot afford to buy, despite our repeated demands to increase relief trucks and reduce commercial ones, yet what happens is the opposite entirely.

It said: "We remind the U.S. administration that there are other mediators and international bodies that are more neutral and credible who have not observed anything of what has been claimed to be seen, and that Washington's continued adoption of the narrative of the occupation deepens its unethical bias and places it in the position of a partner in the siege and suffering."

It added: "The U.S. administration, which receives reports of violations daily, does not need drones to realize the extent of the crimes, but rather a sense of human conscience and political and moral responsibility to stop justifying the violations and ongoing aggression of the occupation, and obligate it to implement agreements and stop the daily violations that do not require planes to monitor or film."