Euro-Med Monitor accuses “Israel” of using fuel ban to Gaza as tool of mass murder

GAZA, July 02 (YPA) – Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor accused the Israeli occupation authorities of using the ban on fuel entering Gaza Strip hospitals as a “tool of mass murder and a systematic means of forced displacement”.

In a statement, the Monitor warned of an imminent health disaster threatening the lives of thousands of patients.

The statement explained that the occupation’s continued ban on fuel supplies represents a “certain death sentence” for the vast majority of patients, particularly in the northern Gaza Strip, where intensive care units, incubators, and operating rooms may be gradually shutting down due to power shortages.

The statement noted that the Israeli occupation government has deliberately preventing fuel from entering hospitals as a deliberate attempt to force residents, particularly patients and their families, to forcibly migrate south, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

The observatory’s statement also warned of a rapid spread of infectious diseases, such as meningitis, due to the collapse of the health system and the inability to treat wastewater, threatening the spread of epidemics among displaced civilians.

“A large number of civilian casualties are falling daily as a result of the siege and deprivation of basic services,” it added. However, they are not recorded on the lists of victims of the aggression because they were not directly killed in military attacks, which conceals the extent of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.”

The statement called on all UN organizations and international bodies to take urgent action on all possible avenues to halt what it described as “ongoing Israeli crimes”, urging states to assume their legal and humanitarian responsibilities and “take concrete measures to halt the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip”.

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