Israel’s brutal 16-year-old blockade of Palestinian territory has prompted the Gaza-based Palestinian movement freedom fighters Hamas to file a case with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
According to a number of news sources cited on the website of Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen satellite news channel on Tuesday, a complaint regarding the ongoing blockade of Gaza by Tel Aviv and the war crime and a crime against humanity that has been committed against Gazans has been made by lawmakers for Hamas.
According to the channel, which cited Huda Naim, the head of the Human Rights Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Gaza Strip, it will be presented to the tribunal by French attorney Gilles Duvier.
The legal struggle is one of the most crucial weapons because the occupation depends on military force and outside support and cover to survive, according to Naim.
“We are in a comprehensive battle with a criminal, colonial, settler occupation, which includes all arenas and fields,” Naim said.
According to her, the complaint “criminalizes the Israeli occupation for its serious abuses against the Palestinian people, particularly the crime of blockade, and its egregious violations of laws and charters.”
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Occupation as a ‘fascist’ entity
The Palestinian official said, “There is a great need to exert every effort to strengthen the Palestinian narrative, expose the fascist truth of the occupation, and expose its crimes to international public opinion.”
During a war in 1967 that received strong support from the West, Israel occupied Gaza and the nearby Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
Although the government withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005, it continued to impose a complete land, air, and sea blockade that had made the region the largest open-air prison in the world.
The majority of the approximately 2 million Palestinians who reside in the besieged area are reportedly unable to travel to other parts of the occupied Palestinian territories or to the outside world as a result of the siege, according to the United Nations.
