Palestinian Al-Ahrar Movement: We reject what the Peace Council statement included of attempts to link the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip to political and security conditions and demands

Palestinian Al-Ahrar Movement:

▪We reject what the Peace Council statement included of attempts to link the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip to political and security conditions and demands, instead of focusing on the occupation's direct responsibility for the suffering of our people and the unprecedented humanitarian tragedies they are facing.

▪Dealing with the Palestinian reality as if the clock stopped on October 7, 2023, is a distortion of facts and a deliberate erasure of the roots of the conflict, as if decades of occupation, siege, killing and destruction did not exist, and as if the crimes of extermination, starvation, displacement and closure of crossings committed by the occupation do not require accountability.

▪We reject dragging the file of weapons into the context of addressing the humanitarian catastrophe, as each issue has its own time and place, and the suffering of children, women, patients and displaced persons must not be turned into a pressure card to impose political or security conditions. Assisting the distressed, sheltering the homeless, opening the crossings and bringing in aid are humanitarian rights and duties that are not subject to bargaining or delay.

▪We call on the Peace Council and the international community to assume their responsibilities, and to immediately pressure the occupation to stop its violations, open the crossings, allow in shelter supplies, medicine, food and fuel, and work to save civilians and hold the occupation accountable for its crimes, بعيداً عن سياسة ازدواجية المعايير وقلب الحقائق.

▪Gaza does not need statements that hold the victim responsible for the crime of the executioner, but rather positions that uphold the truth and save the human being; there is no peace with the continuation of the occupation, and no justice without holding the criminals accountable.