Government media in Gaza: Israel is waging a misinformation campaign regarding the entry of aid.

The government media office in Gaza confirmed on Tuesday that Israel is waging a deceptive campaign regarding the entry of aid to cover up its "criminal policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing" that have been ongoing for the past 20 months. It denied that any "real aid" has entered the Strip.

The director general of the government office, Ismail Thawabta, said that Israel is engaging in a "systematic disinformation campaign" promoting "false" information about the entry of aid in order to cover up its "criminal, genocidal, and ethnic cleansing policies against civilians."

He added, "Despite the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, no real aid has entered, in flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I, which constitutes a collective crime targeting civilians," according to what was reported by the Anadolu Agency.

The Gaza Strip needs 500 trucks of urgent relief, medical, and food aid daily, as well as a minimum of 50 trucks of life-saving fuel amid the worsening famine, according to a previous statement from the government office.

Al-Thawabat stated that these crimes coincide with "the intensification of famine and Gaza's reaching the fifth stage of food insecurity, according to international and governmental reports."

The Director General of the Government Office in Gaza stated that this data confirms that Israel has committed the "crime of intentionally starving the civilian population" under the Rome Statute.

He held Israel fully responsible before the international community and the relevant international criminal courts for preventing food and relief supplies from entering the Gaza Strip and destroying livelihoods in Gaza, a practice that reveals a "documented intent to commit genocide."

Al-Thawabta pointed out that the media office had monitored 58 deaths due to malnutrition, and 242 other cases due to food and medicine shortages, most of them elderly, after 80 days of Israeli closure of the crossings.

He also noted that 26 deaths among kidney patients were documented due to the lack of nutritional and medical care, as well as more than 300 miscarriages among pregnant women due to a lack of the nutrients necessary for pregnancy to continue, during the same period.

Al-Thawabat condemned the continued "criminal policies of the Israeli occupation, including closing crossings, imposing a blockade, implementing a starvation policy, and engineering starvation against civilians, children, and vulnerable groups."

He called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to assume their "moral and legal responsibilities and intervene immediately and urgently to save civilians in Gaza from the catastrophe of famine, pressure the occupation to open the crossings, allow aid in, and halt the policy of genocide it is practicing against them through starvation and daily killing."

On Thursday, 80 countries said in a joint statement to the United Nations that Gaza is facing the "worst humanitarian crisis" since the beginning of the genocide, warning that civilians in the Strip are at risk of "famine."

With limited aid entering Gaza on Wednesday evening, Hamas said it represented less than a tenth of the minimum needed to meet the Strip's annual needs.

According to a statement published by the media office on Saturday, during the more than 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 the population.

However, in recent days, Israel has been promoting a misleading narrative claiming it is allowing aid into the Strip, while the reality shows that no more than 100 trucks have actually entered, or less than 1 percent of basic needs, according to the same source.

This comes as the Israeli military expands its war on the Gaza Strip, announcing on May 18 the launch of Operation Gideon, a ground offensive from multiple directions.

On May 4, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved the "Gideon's Wagons" operation plan to expand the war in Gaza.

The war on Gaza left approximately 177,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, more than 11,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.