Palestinian Foreign Ministry: The occupation of lands dumped in Gaza is a war crime

Occupied Jerusalem-Sana

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the silence of the international community, which encourages the Israeli occupation authorities to persist in their colonial plans in the besieged Gaza Strip, calling for documenting the crime of dumping agricultural lands with water that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity.

The Foreign Ministry made clear in a statement today reported by the Wafa Agency that the occupation authorities deliberately opened up the rainwater dams again and for the third time within ten days to flood agricultural lands and spray them with harmful pesticides in the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the occupation's aggression against the Palestinian people and comes within the occupation's plans to tighten The blockade of the Strip and its complete closure, in flagrant violation of international laws.

The Foreign Ministry called on human rights and humanitarian organizations to raise this crime to the International Criminal Court and work to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians in accordance with international law and the Rome Charter.