The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said today, Friday, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is kidnapping more than two million Palestinians and treating them as hostages without providing them with what they need to survive, especially the hundreds of thousands of them in northern Gaza Strip, who are living a real famine due to the ongoing Israeli invasion and siege.

The ministry added - in a press statement - that Netanyahu also does not miss any opportunity to overturn any step taken by those before him towards ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, as he quickly translated the unjust siege into a brutal occupation of the entire Gaza Strip, in full view and hearing of the international community and the countries that claim to care about the principle of the two-state solution.

It explained that after 133 days of the genocide war against our people, all international demands and appeals to protect civilians, secure their basic humanitarian needs, and prevent their displacement are no longer effective unless coupled with deterrent international measures and sanctions that force the Israeli government to comply with UN resolutions, including the International Court of Justice ruling. Netanyahu continues to disregard these demands and resolutions and persists in killing, starving, and dehydrating our people and destroying the land of their homeland to push them to emigrate.

It said, "It is clear that Netanyahu has also turned the Gaza Strip and its residents into a training and shooting field, aiming to activate his army if not to punish it, and continues to commit mass massacres across the Gaza Strip, prevents the arrival of aid, and practices a systematic policy to undermine UNRWA to prevent it from providing services to more than two million Palestinians, to the extent that some trucks that entered the Gaza Strip have not yet found anyone to unload their cargo, then Netanyahu blames UNRWA after destroying its capabilities and creating conditions that prevent it from working."

It pointed to what the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis is subjected to in terms of killing, abuse, and violation of Palestinian lives, and the shameful silence on the foreheads of humanity and all countries, amid official Israeli persistence in rejecting the work of international organizations concerned in the sector and preventing them from carrying out their humanitarian work, as is the case with the World Health Organization, for example, at a time when the occupation has no plan to protect civilians in Rafah and spare them the horrors of continuous bombing and the evils of the announced ground invasion.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates emphasized in its statement that what is required from the international community are binding UN resolutions that force the Israeli government to stop the aggression and start practical arrangements to end the occupation once and for all, achieving peace, security, and stability in the region, and closing the chapter on wars and the cycle of violence.