The Palestinian group says “the continued crime of starvation in the Gaza Strip is a stain on the international community, which continues its shameful silence in the face of one of the most horrific crimes of our time”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The systematic and overt policy of starvation and thirst practiced by the government of the war criminal Netanyahu against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which has intensified over the past five months, is a disgrace to the international community, which has been a silent witness to this horrific, brutal crime,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.

“We call on the European Union, Britain, Canada, Australia, and other Western countries to translate their declared media positions into effective political and economic actions and measures, to review all forms of cooperation with the occupation, to stop supplying it with weapons with which it kills civilians and children around the clock, and to hold it accountable for using starvation as a tool of mass murder,” the group added.

It also called on the UN and the international community “to take practical and binding measures to compel the occupation to allow the immediate entry of aid, without conditions or control, in a manner that ensures the rescue of civilians from the threat of death by hunger and thirst”.