[News] Hamas urges mediators to enforce ceasefire obligations as humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza

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Hamas urges mediators to enforce ceasefire obligations as humanitarian
crisis deepens in Gaza

Thursday 18-December-2025
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GAZA, (PIC)

The Hamas Movement has called on international mediators to take effective
and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under
the ceasefire agreement, amid mounting warnings that Israeli obstruction is
threatening the continuation of humanitarian operations in Gaza.

The call came in response to a joint statement issued by the United Nations
and more than 200 humanitarian organizations, which warned that Israeli
restrictions are jeopardizing life-saving aid efforts across the territory.

In a press statement, Hamas said the UN warning over Israel’s potential
move to revoke the registration of dozens of international relief
organizations “underscores the danger of the occupation’s approach in
deepening the humanitarian catastrophe.”

The Movement stressed that these policies require urgent international
action and the mobilization of all available means to provide relief to
Palestinians in Gaza.

Hamas said the Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, is, according
to the UN and international organizations, systematically tightening the
siege and weaponizing humanitarian aid, depriving civilians of their basic
rights as part of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

It said these actions constitute a clear violation of the ceasefire
agreement brokered under the sponsorship of US president Donald Trump,
adding that hundreds of field violations have resulted in the killing of
hundreds of Palestinians, either by fire from the Israeli occupation forces
or as a result of obstructed relief operations and the failure to provide
shelter for displaced civilians.

In a separate statement, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the martyrdom
of children from extreme cold in Gaza amounted to a crime committed by the
occupation through its continued siege and its prevention of reconstruction.

Qassem said repeated appeals to allow real shelter solutions and to begin
reconstruction have failed to move the international community to save
Gaza’s children, who “were killed by bombardment and are now dying from the
cold.”

He urged the international community to take immediate and serious action
to rescue Gaza before the catastrophe worsens and mass fatalities occur. He
also called on the US administration and President Donald Trump to pressure
Israel to honor its ceasefire commitments, particularly humanitarian and
relief provisions, and to ensure that international humanitarian
organizations can operate without obstruction in Gaza.

Earlier on Thursday, Nasser Medical Complex announced the martyrdom of a
child due to severe cold in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, in
southern Gaza, adding to a growing number of children who have died in
recent days as a result of harsh weather conditions.

Over the past week, Gaza has been hit by two severe winter storms that have
killed at least 16 Palestinians, further worsening living conditions in a
territory devastated by genocide that has killed more than 70,000 people,
wounded over 171,000 others, and destroyed around 90 percent of civilian
infrastructure.

Heavy rains have flooded approximately 53,000 tents that fail to meet even
minimum humanitarian safety standards, as border crossings remain closed
and the entry of emergency shelter materials is blocked. The crisis has
been compounded by Israel’s failure to comply with the ceasefire agreement
and its humanitarian protocol, particularly provisions related to shelters,
tents, and mobile housing units.
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