In response to the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli occupation state in the outskirts of the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of hundreds of our people, children, women and men, the Palestinian presidency condemns this massacre and holds the Israeli government fully responsible for it, as well as the American administration, which provides all kinds of support for the occupation and its crimes. Which is a link in a series of daily massacres committed in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West Bank, which represent full-fledged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and a genocidal war that violates international law and international humanitarian law.

Although we realize that the occupying state does not need justifications and pretexts to carry out its crimes against our people, at the same time it benefits from any pretext it finds to justify the war crimes and genocide crimes it commits under the pretext that it is defending itself, which makes any party that provides pretexts to it a partner in carrying out responsibility for the tragedies and calamities befalling our people at the hands of the occupation forces.

The presidency considers the Hamas movement, by evading national unity and providing free pretexts to the occupying state, a partner in bearing the legal, moral and political responsibility for the continuation of the Israeli war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip with all the suffering, destruction and killing it causes to our people.

The presidency calls on the Hamas movement to give priority to the highest national interests and to remove the pretexts from the occupation in order to stop this open massacre against our people.

The presidency also calls on the international community to take practical action to impose a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and save innocent civilians from the scourge of this Israeli aggression.