Hamas calls for accountability after Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shuts down

Hamas on Monday called for accountability for the more than 2600 Palestinians killed as they tried to retrieve food rations from the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation between May and October of this year.

"The announcement by the Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation of ending its mission in the Gaza Strip is a deserved step for an inhumane group that was complicit in the genocide project and the engineering of starvation in partnership with the Zionist occupation," Hamas said in a statement. 

"Since its entry into the Gaza Strip, this foundation was part of the occupation's security system, which adopted distribution mechanisms entirely disconnected from humanitarian principles, and created dangerous and degrading conditions for the dignity of the starving Palestinian people during their attempts to obtain a piece of bread," the statement continued. 

"Any project that works with the occupation and implements its fascist policies will necessarily collapse because it is built on injustice, tyranny, and dehumanization," Hamas said. 

"We call on legal bodies and international courts to hold this foundation and its officers accountable for their crimes against our people, so that the tragedy is not repeated and to protect humanity from organized international terrorism."