Slamming Israel’s systematic starvation policy in Gaza, the left-wing resistance organisation Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the brutalities surpass those of Nazism and fascism of the last century. In a statement released on Wednesday, July 23rd, the PFLP called the Israelis “neo-Nazis” for their starvation policy in Gaza.
“The neo-Nazis’ continued systematic starvation war against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, coupled with widespread bombing, forced displacement of exhausted IDPs, systematic destruction of health and service infrastructure, and a severe drinking water crisis threatening the lives of the population, constitutes unprecedented major war crimes, surpassing all known Nazism and fascism in history,” the PFLP said.
The PFLP’s statement follows the repeated massacres carried out by Israel at the Gaza aid camps set up by its affiliates. Hundreds of starving Palestinian men and children have been killed while they rushed to receive aid.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health’s statement, within a span of 24 hours between July 22nd and July 23rd, ten civilians were killed due to starvation and malnutrition in the besieged Strip.
“The easy way to kill starving civilians as they attempt to obtain aid from US-sponsored death traps brings to mind scenes from Nazi concentration camps that prepared people for death by starvation and massacres,” the PFLP said, comparing the Zionist entity with the Nazis.
“It confirms the direct and active involvement of the United States in this heinous crime, perpetrated by the occupation amidst the bombing and the tight siege that prevents the entry of the most basic necessities of life,” the Marxist-Leninist organisation added.
Amid the call for global mobilisation against Israel’s brutal starvation policy in Gaza, the PFLP also accused the US of its complicity in the crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip.
“The world’s silence and suspicious inaction in the face of this crime, its inability to hold the occupation accountable, and its blatant complicity with the United States, represent a resounding moral downfall and a blatant betrayal of all human values,” the PFLP stressed.
“Leaving an entire people to face a real famine and slow death under siege and bombardment is a de facto complicity in this crime, perpetrated in its most heinous forms by neo-Nazism, the perpetrators of atrocities and criminals of this age, who continue their crimes without mercy, while the world is content with issuing hollow statements, not worth the ink they are written with and have become tools of anaesthesia and disguised complicity,” the organisation highlighted.
The left-wing force emphasised the role played by people of different nations in this crisis, and relied on their responsible actions against those responsible for Israel’s infamous starvation policy in Gaza.
“The peoples of the world are required to rise up and face their responsibilities, and to hold accountable all those who participate, directly or indirectly, in this crime. The time has come to champion humanity and dignity, for what is happening in Gaza exceeds all limits of cruelty and brutality,” the PFLP urged.
“Our people will not forgive or pardon those who failed, colluded, or remained silent, leaving them alone to face starvation and genocide. The cries of hungry children will remain a witness, and history will not be merciful to the indolent and the spectators,” the organisation concluded.
The PFLP’s statement against Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza comes after its offshoot, the far-left Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), also released a statement appealing to all fraternal people and organisations for support.
“The forms of human suffering in Gaza are many: from civilians being killed in their homes, shelters, schools, international facilities, and in the streets—even while collecting food aid—to a more harrowing form of death that is now spreading widely throughout the Strip, especially among children: death by starvation,” the DFLP had said.
“The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented the martyrdom of 798 people waiting for aid in Gaza in less than a month and a half. The number of children who have died due to malnutrition in Gaza has risen to 85, bringing the total number of deaths from lack of food and medicine to over 660,” the Maoist organisation cited.
“A report issued by the United Nations and other international bodies warned that the entire Gaza Strip is facing a high risk of famine, given the continued closure of crossings and the extreme scarcity of food,” the DFLP highlighted.
It also called upon the people of the world to help, in their own ways and nonconventional forms, to end the systematic starvation of civilians in Gaza.
