The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates considered suspicious the global inability to end the humanitarian catastrophe affecting the coastal enclave, home to more than two million people.

Despite international consensus, the occupying state is expanding its war campaign and using hunger, thirst, and the denial of medical treatment as weapons of war, the ministry denounced in a statement.

However, the international community is incapable of ending this disregard for UN Security Council demands, appeals, and resolutions, it emphasized.

The Ministry emphasized that protecting the Strip is a moral, legal, and political duty, which should not be subject to narrow calculations or interests.

Human life is not a bargaining chip, a means of blackmail, or an opportunity to improve political conditions, he affirmed.

According to official data, since the beginning of the Israeli military offensive against that territory 22 months ago, more than 61,000 Palestinians have lost their lives there and nearly 153,000 have suffered injuries.

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