Hamas: Gaza blockade heralds grave humanitarian disaster

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hamas movement warned on Tuesday of a grave humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip as a result of the continued blockade.The movement said in a statement on Tuesday that the tightened measures at the Rafah border terminal (with Egypt) and the destruction of tunnels and the limited entry of goods via the Israeli-controlled Karm Abu Salem all point to an imminent humanitarian tragedy.It said that such conditions herald an economic collapse and are designed to pressure Gaza into giving up resistance and endorsing negotiations that are meant to liquidate the Palestine cause.Hamas warned of conducting such measures under flimsy security pretexts, adding that it had proven with documents that such pretexts were nothing but a suspicious media campaign aimed at securing political goals that are harmful to the Palestinian question.Hamas affirmed, in conclusion, that the Palestinian people despite the pains would confront and foil all such goals./149