The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has rejected the “false and deceitful” investigation of the Israeli regime into the “flour massacre” in the southwest of Gaza City, in which at least 116 Palestinians were killed.
Hamas said on Friday it goes beyond the undeniable facts that documented the direct shooting of Palestinians with the intention of immediate killing.
Hamas made the remarks in a statement after the Israeli regime announced the results of a preliminary investigation into the incident, alleging that its forces have opened fire on Palestinians who moved toward soldiers and a tank at an IDF checkpoint, endangering troops” and that they have not fired shots at the convoy itself.
“We reject the results of the sham and misleading investigation carried out by the criminal Zionist occupation army, on Al-Nabulsi Roundabout massacre last week, which claimed the lives of about 120 Palestinians who were waiting to receive aid,” the resistance group said.
Hamas went on to say that “this sham deceptive inquiry goes beyond the compelling facts on the Israeli intentional killing of Palestinians by shooting them directly on the upper parts of the body.”
It also emphasized that the “horrific massacre will remain a witness to the criminality and Nazism of this entity devoid of humanitarian and ethical values.”
“This massacre and other violations haunt until justice is served for Palestinian people, and the Israeli soldiers and authorities are tried for the crimes and violations they have committed against our Palestinian people,” Hamas said.
The resistance group further noted that the massacre “has received widespread international condemnation,” which prompted the occupying regime to try to exonerate its soldiers of the horrific crime they committed “with no justification other than their thirst” to kill more Palestinians.
On February 29, Israeli troops opened indiscriminate fire on people waiting for humanitarian aid near al-Nabulsi roundabout in Gaza City, killing at least 116 people and injuring 760 others in what rights groups described as a textbook case of cold-blooded massacre in Gaza.
The regime denied involvement in the massacre that came nearly five months into the Israeli genocide in the besieged territory.
The flawed Israeli narrative kept changing and evolving throughout the day, designed to shift the blame on victims, the desperate aid-seekers who were there to get some flour.
The Israeli army claimed they had nothing to do with the incident and blamed a stampede for it. Later, they said trucks carrying aid had run over civilians. Finally, they admitted to having fired at the crowd, but “only targeting the militants trying to sabotage the aid delivery.”
The latest massacre of Palestinians by Israeli forces has been met with strong condemnation from different states and international organizations.
Israel waged its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 30,878 Palestinians and injured 72,402 others.
The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
