Palestinian President Invites World Leaders To Press Israel To Starve In Gaza

JAKARTA - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched a campaign to work closely with world leaders and international organizations to pressure Israel to end the hunger that has hit the population in the Gaza Strip.

Citing WAFA, Monday, July 21, Abbas's campaign was in the form of a message sent to world leaders and international organizations.

Abbas warned of crime through a deliberate and continuing hunger scheme imposed by Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. He stressed that the effort was a war crime that was fully committed by Israel.

We convey this message to you at a critical and difficult time for our Palestinian people, as a result of the systematic practices of the Israeli occupation government, which commit crimes of genocide, murder, destruction, and hunger against our people in Gaza without any prevention or accountability. These actions undermine the two-state solution and tighten the snares against the Palestinian people and their national institutions, which aim to prevent the realization of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state. These actions also destroy peace efforts, which put our region and the world in tension and instability." Abbas's message.

Israel has carried out a military invasion of Palestine, particularly the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.

In its aggression, Israel surrounded the total Gaza Strip and launched rocket attacks on the Palestinian enclave, along with attacks targeting districts in Lebanon and Syria.

On March 2, 2025, Israel unilaterally imposed a ban on international countries and humanitarian organizations sending humanitarian aid to Gaza. All borders in Gaza are also blocked by Israel.