▪The occupation committed a new brutal crime last night, as occupation drones of the “Quadcopter” type, at exactly 8:00 p.m., set fire to an entire camp for displaced people at the Shuja'iyya junction.
▪The flames continued to consume the tents of the displaced and their simple belongings for several continuous hours until after midnight last night, in a scene that reflects the height of criminality, sadism, and the absence of the slightest level of humanity.
▪This barbaric aggression caused damage to and displacement of more than 200 Palestinian displaced families, including more than 800 displaced people, the vast majority of them women, children, the elderly, and the sick.
▪The occupation’s deliberate burning of the tents led to a state of extreme panic, fear, and terror among the safe families, leaving them once again displaced in the open, without shelter or an alternative that would protect them from the harshness of the conditions, in a clear entrenchment of the policy of forced displacement and continued displacement.
▪We strongly condemn the “Israeli” occupation army’s burning of the tents of the displaced and their deliberate displacement, and we consider this a fully-fledged war crime and a crime against humanity that constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions that guarantee the protection of civilians in times of conflict.
▪We hold the “Israeli” occupation and the U.S. administration fully and directly responsible for the continued path of genocide and the targeting of tents and shelters for the displaced, as these crimes are committed under full political and military cover and amid unjustified international silence.
▪We call on the international community, the United Nations, the UN Security Council, and all human rights organizations to break their suspicious silence, intervene immediately and urgently, and exert effective pressure to stop the genocide war and the ongoing cycle of burning and destruction against unarmed civilians.
▪We appeal to all relief, international, and UN institutions working in the Gaza Strip to move urgently and immediately to assist the families displaced from the Shuja'iyya junction and provide tents, alternative shelter, and essential supplies for them on an emergency basis to save them from the humanitarian catastrophe they were forced into.
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