Israel’s movement to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip has generated criticism of foreign governments, Palestinian groups and human rights bodies.
Israel’s Minister of Energy, Eli Cohen, ordered on Sunday the detention of electricity to the mistreated enclave. The decision occurred a week after Israel suspended Gaza aid deliveries.
“We will use all the tools at our disposal to recover hostages and make sure that Hamas is no longer in Gaza the next day,” the conflict, he said.
These are some of the reactions of the entire region and the world:
Hamas
Hamas accused Israel on Monday of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail” for his decision on Sunday of stopping the supply of electricity to Gaza in an effort to press the Palestinian group to release captive.
“We firmly condemn the decision of the occupation of cutting the electricity to Gaza, after depriving it of food, medicine and water,” said Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Hamas political office in a statement, and added that it was “a desperate attempt to press our people and their resistance through cheap and unacceptable Blackmail tactics.”
Palestinian authority
Meanwhile, the Palestinian authority based in Ramallah called Israel’s decision to stop the supply of electricity to Gaza “an escalation in the genocide” in the besieged territory.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “strongly condemns the decision of the Israeli Ministry of Energy to reduce electricity to the Gaza Strip, considering an escalation in genocide, displacement and humanitarian disaster in Gaza.”
United Kingdom
The British government asked Israel to restore the supply of electricity to Gaza, warning that the country could violate international law.
“We are deeply concerned about these reports and urge Israel to raise these restrictions,” Primer Minister Keir Starmer told the official journalists. “We are clear that it stops on the goods and supplies that enter Gaza, including basic needs such as electricity, runs the risk of breaking Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law.”
Germany
The German government said that Israel’s decision to stop help deliveries and cut the supply of electricity to Gaza could cause a new humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.
Referring to the decision to stop the aid, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kathrin Deschar [Israel’s] obligations under international law. “
UN RPPORTER FRANCESCA ALBANESE
The UN Special Rapporteur in the French occupied Palestinian territory Albanese has said that Israel’s decision to cut Electricity to Gaza means “without decoration stations in operation, ergo: without clean water.”
In a publication about X, he said: “Genocide Alert”, and added that the countries that had not yet imposed sanctions or an embargo on Israel were “helping and helping Israel in the commission of one of the most preventable genocides in our history.”
