Gaza government: The Israeli occupation continues to close the crossings and practice a systematic starvation policy.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation continues to close the crossings for the 84th day, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, food, and goods, refuting claims by Hebrew media that aid is being brought into the Strip daily.

In a statement, he stated that "the Israeli occupation's deliberate prevention of the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has disrupted vital facilities, most notably hospitals and bakeries, on which Palestinians depend for their survival."

The government office noted that "the Israeli occupation has shut down more than 90 percent of the Gaza Strip's bakeries, reflecting its 'starvation engineering' policy."

He stressed that "hundreds of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid have piled up outside Gaza and have been damaged and rotted as a result of Israel's months-long ban on its entry."

It stressed that the starvation policy imposed by the occupation, through the continued closure of crossings and the prevention of aid from entering, has led to the deaths of 326 Palestinians over the past 80 days, as part of the genocide it is perpetrating.

It highlighted that "the occupation is imposing restrictions on the movement of the few aid trucks that were allowed into the Gaza Strip in recent days, and is directly targeting the teams securing them, with six of them recently killed while carrying out their duties to protect the aid."

During the 84 days of the siege and complete closure, at least 46,200 trucks loaded with aid and fuel were supposed to enter the Gaza Strip to meet the minimum needs of Palestinians. However, in recent days, Israel has been promoting a misleading narrative claiming that it is allowing the entry of "aid," while the reality shows that only about 100 trucks actually entered, or less than 1 percent of the population's basic needs, according to the same statement.

In detailing the deaths during the 80 days of the siege, the office stated that "58 people died from malnutrition, and 242 others from food and medicine shortages, most of them elderly. In addition, 26 kidney patients died as a result of the lack of adequate nutrition and healthcare."

The government media office added that "more than 300 cases of miscarriage have been recorded among pregnant women due to a lack of nutrients necessary for pregnancy to continue."

The office called on "the international community and humanitarian organizations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities and intervene immediately and urgently to save civilians in the Gaza Strip from the catastrophe of famine by opening the crossings, allowing the immediate entry of sufficient humanitarian aid, and halting the occupation's policy of genocide against them."

On Friday, 80 countries said in a joint statement to the United Nations that Gaza is facing the "worst humanitarian crisis" since the start of the Israeli war of extermination on the Strip on October 7, 2023, warning that civilians in the Strip are at risk of "famine."

The Israeli occupation continues its systematic starvation policy against approximately 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza, closing the crossings to aid supplies piling up on the border since March 2nd. This has plunged the Strip into famine and claimed the lives of many.

Over the past few days, the Israeli occupation army has expanded its war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, announcing a "ground operation in the north and south of the Strip."

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has continued its widespread genocidal war against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, including killing, destruction, starvation, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.

This US-backed genocide left more than 176,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, more than 11,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.