Artillery shelling and heavy gunfire from the occupation’s vehicles west of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza

Hamas: We followed the statement issued by the Peace Council regarding the flood disaster in the Gaza Strip, and despite acknowledging the seriousness of the humanitarian situation and the delay by the Israeli government in bringing in shelter and recovery supplies, it presents a distorted account of the causes of the disaster and ignores documented political facts regarding the responsibility of the Israeli occupation for obstructing the implementation of President Trump's plan and the roadmap that Hamas and the resistance factions agreed to.

Hamas: ▪ We followed the statement issued by the Peace Council regarding the flood disaster in the Gaza Strip, and despite acknowledging the seriousness of the humanitarian situation and the delay by the Israeli government in bringing in shelter and recovery supplies, it presents a distorted account of the causes of the disaster and ignores documented political facts regarding the responsibility of the Israeli occupation for obstructing the implementation of President Trump's plan and the roadmap that Hamas and the resistance factions agreed to. ▪ Placing responsibility on Hamas for obstructing the implementation of the roadmap contradicts the official statements of the mediators, especially Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, who confirmed on 3 August/آب 2026 that the occupation and its ongoing violations undermine the implementation of the second phase, especially after Hamas and the factions announced their approval of the roadmap. ▪ Turning the humanitarian disaster and the entry of life-saving aid into a political pressure card is inconsistent with humanitarian and legal obligations, as the United Nations revealed that tens of thousands of families were affected by the floods at a time when large quantities of shelter materials are outside the Strip awaiting permission to enter. ▪ Children who die under the sand and in rainwater are not a party to the negotiations, and they may not be taken hostage to achieve the occupation's goals of killing and displacing the Palestinian people. ▪ The Peace Council, as the body supervising the implementation of the plan, is required to clarify its responsibility for this grave shortcoming amid the continued Israeli restrictions that prevent the entry of the materials needed for shelter and early recovery. ▪ We continue to affirm our readiness to implement the agreed understandings and reject their reinterpretation or the imposition of new conditions that would change the sequence of mutual obligations, obstruct the Israeli withdrawal and prolong the suffering of the السكان. ▪ We call on the Peace Council to oblige the Israeli government to immediately implement the obligations of the first phase and open the crossings to relief, shelter and recovery supplies without political or security conditions. ▪ Announce a timetable and a verification mechanism for implementing the roadmap that the council previously announced Hamas had accepted, in line with mutual obligations including the Israeli withdrawal, the transfer of administration and security arrangements. ▪ Enable the National Committee for Gaza Administration to begin its work and identify the actual obstacles preventing that and the parties responsible for them. ▪ Mobilize international funding and enable United Nations institutions to carry out their humanitarian tasks without restrictions, and begin early recovery and infrastructure repair. ▪ Publish a clear report on the implemented and delayed obligations in a way that ensures all parties are held accountable according to uniform standards. ▪ What Gaza needs is not a new statement of concern, but the implementation of the obligations announced by the Peace Council itself. ▪ There will be no credibility for any plan to end the war that makes relief for civilians hostage to negotiations or burdens the victim with the consequences of the continued siege and obstruction. Gaza needs the lifting of restrictions, an end to the occupation, and enabling its people to live, recover and rebuild immediately.

Israeli artillery shelling east of Baten al-Sameen, south of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

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.