Gaza Higher Winter Emergency Committee: We express our deep pain over the loss of a number of our people who died last night in the tragic disaster following a sand collapse in the Deir al-Balah area.
Gaza Higher Winter Emergency Committee:
▪We express our deep pain over the loss of a number of our people who died last night in the tragic disaster following a sand collapse in the Deir al-Balah area.
▪We affirm that this disaster is not merely a natural accident, but rather a direct result of the tragic humanitarian reality and the catastrophic conditions imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war of extermination on the Strip.
▪We hold the Israeli occupation fully and directly responsible for this tragedy as a result of the continuing aggression and ongoing blockade, the prevention of reconstruction, the systematic destruction of infrastructure, the targeting of equipment and heavy machinery belonging to Civil Defense and municipalities, and the banning of the entry of rescue equipment, fuel and safety supplies, which has caused residents and displaced people to live in unsafe environments surrounded by danger.
▪We call on the United Nations, the international community, and all humanitarian institutions to intervene immediately and urgently to aid our people and prevent the recurrence of such catastrophic tragedies by pressuring the occupation to allow the entry of heavy equipment, digging and rescue machinery, soil stabilization equipment, in addition to tents and equipped shelter materials that ensure the safety of displaced people and protect them from the dangers of winter and earth collapses.
▪We renew our call to our families and the displaced to exercise the utmost caution and vigilance and to move away immediately from sand dunes and buildings at risk of collapse, especially with changing weather conditions and rainfall, which increase soil liquidity and the danger of collapses.
▪We reaffirm that the continuation of international helplessness in the face of the destruction of the foundations of life in the Gaza Strip exposes the lives of more than two million citizens to death by all means, and we call on everyone to stand by their legal and humanitarian responsibilities before it is too late.
▪We extend our sincerest condolences and sympathy to the families of the martyrs and victims who died in this painful incident, and we ask God to envelop them in His vast mercy, grant them spacious gardens, grant the wounded a speedy recovery, and grant our people near relief.
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