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SvennoJ on 04 August 2025
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Hamas official calls for international intervention in Gaza

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan has released the latest message from the group, saying “engineered starvation” and genocide is “a crime against humanity”, while calling for an immediate intervention by the international community.

“[It] will remain a stigma that haunts all the supporters of the occupation and those who fail to prevent and stop it,” he said in a statement released by Hamas’ official Telegram channel.

Hamdan accused the US and other Western countries of “double standards” due to their difference in attitude towards the Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli captives.

He said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “bears full responsibility for the lives of all prisoners held by the resistance due to his intransigence, arrogance, and evasion of a ceasefire agreement, while escalating the war of extermination and starvation against our people”.

Here’s what else Hamdan said in today’s message:

  • Hamas treats Israeli captives “in accordance with the values and tolerant principles of Islam”.
  • Israeli captives “are experiencing what the people of Gaza are experiencing”, he said.
  • Israel “practises the most heinous forms of torture, brutal revenge, humiliation, and slow killing against our prisoners in its prisons”.
  • The silence of the international community and UN institutions on Israel’s crimes “places political, moral and humanitarian responsibility on all of them”.
  • Hamas is ready “to deal positively with any request from the Red Cross to bring food and medicine to the enemy’s prisoners in the Gaza Strip”.
  • The group expresses “the necessity of forcing the occupation to open humanitarian corridors” into Gaza.



Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges UN Security Council to enforce ‘immediate ceasefire’

In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry has said that the UN Security Council has “legal and moral responsibilities” to enforce “an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.

“The ministry expresses deep concern over the continued obstruction of the Security Council’s role in protecting over two million Palestinians in Gaza, trapped in ongoing genocide, facing mass killing, starvation, and the denial of basic human rights,” said the statement.

It added that “continued delays in ending the war only serve to further plans of forced displacement against our people”.