Gaza _ Palestine News Network
MP Jamal al-Khodari, chairman of the People´s Committee for the siege, stressed that the occupation continues to prevent the full introduction of fuel and cooking gas into the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day, compounding the worsening human suffering caused by the Israeli blockade.
Al-Khodari warned in a press statement that the continuation of the ban has serious repercussions on the overall life in the sector under an already deteriorating situation.
He noted that this prevention exacerbates the fuel crisis in homes, hospitals, clinics, bakeries and factories, as well as the generators on which the population relies heavily in the light of the electricity crisis.
He stressed that the situation in Gaza is worsening from day to day and accelerated because of the blockade, which has brought the sector to a total economic collapse, with the high rates of poverty and unemployment to alarming proportions, where 85% of Gazans live below the poverty line and 350,000 workers are unemployed, while the per capita income is $2.
Al-Khodari said the electricity, water and health crises are continuing and shortages of medicines and medical consumables have not been treated.
He renewed his clear demand for the exit of Gaza´s commercial crossings from any equations, as it passes through the humanitarian and daily uses of the population.
"All this difficult human reality should be a real pressure force, Palestinian, Arab and international, to intervene in two directions, the first urgent relief campaigns to avert further human and economic collapse, and the second to fully lift the blockade through the international community," he said.
Al-Khodari asserted that the blockade was illegal and immoral and contradicted the principles of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He stressed the need to unite and assemble the whole Palestinian people through a genuine partnership that would end the division and make the Palestinians stronger in the face of challenges, whether in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem or the West Bank.
