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The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas has called on Arab and Islamic countries to pressure the United States occupation in order to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Quds Press reported. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hamas said the Israeli occupation continues to commit its brutal crimes against the defenceless Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip including indiscriminate and barbaric shelling which claims the lives of dozens of civilians, including children, every day. “This is a blatant challenge to the international community and a clear insistence on pursuing a policy of genocide and systematic starvation,” said the statement. Hamas said the Israeli occupation also persists in carrying out the crime of “engineered starvation and chaos” against more than two million people […]
