The Israeli occupation exacerbates the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by tightening the 16-year siege

Occupied Jerusalem-SANA

The Israeli occupation continues to intensify its unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for 16 years by continuing to prevent the entry of food and medical supplies, humanitarian aid, fuel and raw materials for the various industries that stopped as a result of the blockade and the productive sectors that stopped production in them after the destruction of most of them during the last aggression, or preventing the entry of materials raw to run.

The head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, Mohsen Abu Ramadan, indicated in a statement to SANA reporter that the continuous Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip for 16 years has led to collapses in the agricultural, industrial and service sectors, a deficit of electricity exceeding 60 percent, and the suspension of most factories due to the lack of raw materials, as well as paralysis of work in 30 professions employing tens of thousands as a result of the lack of basic materials needed for those industries that suffered severe damage during the recent aggression.

The head of the Palestinian Businessmen Association in Gaza, Ali Al-Hayek, confirmed that 90 percent of the sector’s factories have stopped working and thousands of workers have been laid off due to the lack of raw materials, in addition to the destruction of more than 200 production facilities by the occupation during the last aggression, which caused huge losses, pointing out that the continuation of the unjust siege It will have serious repercussions, and this requires urgent international intervention to work to raise it.

For his part, the head of the International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People, Salah Abdel-Aty, said that the occupation tightened its unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip after the recent aggression, which has exacerbated the suffering of the Palestinians from poverty, unemployment and food insecurity, pointing out that the occupation prevented the entry of aid convoys that include food and medical supplies, in addition to preventing the entry of aid convoys. Traveling patients for treatment in hospitals in the West Bank and abroad, as part of his ongoing crimes against the people of the Gaza Strip, which amount to war crimes.

Human rights researcher Hussein Hammad indicated that the Israeli blockade caused a humanitarian catastrophe for more than two million Palestinians in the Strip, more than 70 percent of whom suffer from food insecurity and severe shortages of medicines, medical supplies, fuel and construction materials, in addition to the fact that about a quarter of a million Palestinians whose homes were completely or partially damaged during The recent aggression cannot rebuild and repair these houses in light of the continuation of the siege.

Member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Mahmoud Khalaf explained that the Gaza Strip is suffering under a suffocating Israeli siege that has affected all aspects of life, while the world stands idly by before the crime of siege, which represents a full-fledged war crime, calling on the international community to break its silence and pressure the occupation to lift its unjust siege imposed on the sector.

Mohammed Abu Shabab