Condemnations of the Rafah massacre and calls to boycott the Israeli-American aid mechanism

The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network and the Private Sector Coordination Council condemned the horrific crime committed by the occupation forces, who opened fire on crowds of citizens seeking aid in Rafah and southern Netzarim, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens.

The network and the Private Sector Coordination Council emphasized the danger of this US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism, which serves the occupation's security and political objectives of forcibly displacing our people from the northern Gaza Strip toward the south, replacing the humanitarian system with a security one, and deepening the humanitarian crisis our people are experiencing.

It called on the international community, represented by UN member states and human rights and humanitarian organizations, to condemn this heinous crime and hold the occupying state and those in charge of the American company accountable, describing their massacre as a war crime and a crime against humanity, including bringing this crime before both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

It also called on the United Nations, international humanitarian organizations, and all countries of the world to take effective steps to compel the occupying state to abandon this abhorrent mechanism and return to the United Nations' humanitarian aid mechanism.

While calling on the countries of the world to assume their responsibilities, not only to thwart the humiliating US-Israeli aid mechanism, but also to halt the ongoing 20-month-old massacre of our people in the Gaza Strip, break the siege, and allow aid to flow in, in accordance with the UN mechanism.