Hamas: GHF committed war crimes against Palestinian people, must be held accountable

In a statement, Hamas said that the American organization’s announcement of ending its operations in the Gaza Strip came after a series of daily massacres during the ongoing war, accusing it of contributing to the killing of starving Palestinians and those seeking aid. The Movement emphasized that the closure of the foundation is a justified step against an entity that “fell alongside the project of genocide and engineered starvation in partnership with the Zionist occupation.”

Hamas asserted that the foundation had, since its entry into Gaza, operated as part of the occupation’s security apparatus, using distribution methods that had nothing to do with humanitarian work. These methods created dangerous and degrading conditions for civilians trying to access food, resulting in thousands of martyrs and injuries due to sniper fire and deliberate killings, exposing the foundation’s complicity in the genocide.

The statement added that the Palestinian people view the foundation as a symbol of the occupation’s failure, along with its partners, to impose their agenda. Hamas stressed that any project that works with the occupation and implements its fascist policies will ultimately collapse, as it is based on injustice, oppression, and the dehumanization of people.

Hamas urged legal organizations and international courts to pursue the foundation and those responsible for it, holding them accountable for their crimes to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies and to protect humanity from organized international terrorism.

Since May 27, the Israeli occupation, with US support, implemented a humiliating aid distribution plan through the GHF, forcing Palestinians to choose between dying of hunger or being shot by Israeli forces.

According to statistics of the Government Media Office, 995 Palestinians were martyred, over 6,000 injured, and 45 others went missing while trying to access food.

The United Nations and several international and human rights organizations had refused to participate in this mechanism from the beginning, denouncing it as biased, life-threatening to civilians, and describing it as a degrading system of aid distribution.