GAZA, (PIC)--- The Hamas Movement warned Sunday that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of explosion sparing no frontiers or walls on their way, pointing out that the Gaza Strip will never raise the white flag.
Commenting on electricity blackouts in Gaza, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press conference that the Israeli siege aims to subjugate the Palestinian people and to push them to relinquish their rights and constants, saying that despite the severity of pain and suffering, the conspiracy to humiliate Gaza will never succeed.
"The Death sentence issued by the Israeli occupation against the Gaza Strip exposes our people to slow death through tightening the siege and cutting electricity until Gaza became without medicine, food or electricity, Dr. Abu Zuhri stated.
The spokesman held US president directly responsible for the deteriorating situation in Gaza because he gave a green light to Israel to escalate its aggressions against the Strip during his visit to the region, castigating the silence of international community towards the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.
The spokesman urged the Arab and the Islamic nation to rise up to the event through holding marches and popular events to pressure their governments to take practical steps to break the siege on Gaza, calling also on the free media outlets to focus more on the Palestinian people's daily suffering.
In the same context, the popular committee against the siege warned that during the coming hours, hundreds of Palestinian patients especially babies and those who are suffering from kidney failure would die consecutively as a result of cutting the electricity from the Gaza Strip. "There are about 450 kidney patients now threatened with death, dozens of babies in incubators threatened with direct death, warning at the same time that wells, water treatment plants and pumps are about to stop working in addition to hospitals," the popular committee reported.
The committee called for opening the Rafah border crossing immediately to allow in medicines and humanitarian aid necessary for the relief of Gaza citizens' suffering, pointing out that the bakeries in Gaza also stopped working.
The committee added that the Palestinian people do not want to hear condemnations and messages of support, but they need serious and tangible moves, calling on the UN and the Red Cross to get their urgent aid to Gaza to reach the people.
The Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness Sunday as Gaza's only electricity plant was shut down because of a shortage of imported fuel as a result of the Israeli decision to close all crossings with Gaza, which forewarns an unprecedented human disaster in the Strip.
The severity of the crisis increased after the Gaza citizens failed to get heating fuel supplies at a time when a cold wave hit Gaza and students get ready for their final semester exams.
The electricity crisis also had its negative impacts on many sectors especially health and sewage system.
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