Hazem Qassem, spokesman for the Hamas movement:
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▪The الاحتلال killing today of the girl Wafa Aqila in a bombardment by its planes, as she was leaving the place where she had received lessons on the first day of the school year, is a compound crime that confirms the continuation of the war of extermination against our people in Gaza, which includes children and women.
▪The silence of the Peace Council and its director Miladenov can only be understood as complicity in these crimes, and as an inability to compel the occupation to any of the agreements that were reached.
▪We call on the Arab and Islamic states participating in the Peace Council to take a clear and practical position on these crimes, and to expose the Israeli position that is manipulating the Peace Council and its decisions.
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