Al-rayyan: Al-Raya newspaper editorial affirmed that the commencement of work by the Palestinian technocratic committee to administer the Gaza Strip constitutes an important milestone that requires broad and immediate international support to enable it to carry out its urgent duties toward the most vulnerable groups in the Strip, in light of the worsening humanitarian conditions suffered by the population as a result of many years of siege, aggression, and destruction.
According to Qatar News Agency, the editorial noted that the committee's top priority should be providing humanitarian relief and responding to the basic needs of the population. It stressed that the committee's success depends on its ability to operate without obstacles and on the existence of genuine international support that ensures the facilitation of its tasks on the ground.
In this regard, it pointed out that Israel is the main party obstructing efforts aimed at lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, emphasizing the need for it to submit to the international consensus supporting the committee's work and to swiftly open the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid to enter the devastated Strip, which is facing a series of suffocating crises at all humanitarian and living levels.
The editorial said that ensuring the success of the Palestinian technocratic committee's work represents an international interest, as it constitutes a fundamental step toward closing a bloody chapter in the history of the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, which has suffered heavy losses as a result of the ongoing aggression and siege.
Al Raya noted that the State of Qatar was among the first countries to welcome the formation of the committee, along with Egypt and Turkey, and considered this step important for strengthening efforts aimed at consolidating stability and improving humanitarian conditions in the Strip. It explained that the formation of the committee comes as an entitlement of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, contributing to the consolidation of calm, preventing renewed escalation, opening the way toward achieving sustainable peace, and creating appropriate conditions for the reconstruction of the Strip.
The editorial addressed Israel's record of reneging on agreements and understandings with the Palestinian side since 2006, noting that throughout periods of calm, the occupation continued to overturn those agreements and tighten the noose around the Palestinian people.
In this context, it said that Israel, even after the calm agreements that followed the October 2023 aggression, violated the agreement hundreds of times, continued to bomb and kill civilians, and prevented the entry of humanitarian aid and heavy equipment needed to remove rubble and search for the bodies of victims.
The newspaper added that these practices come within the framework of a deliberate policy to sustain catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza and as an extension of the policy of collective punishment against the population, including the crime of starvation, in an attempt to pressure the Palestinian people and force them to leave the Strip.
It affirmed that the Israeli occupation, as usual, has failed to honor the international commitments it undertook, particularly those related to the Palestinian people, considering that what is taking place represents an obvious game through which the occupation seeks to exploit any circumstance to suffocate the residents of Gaza and search for pretexts to evade its obligations.
Al Raya concluded its editorial by stressing that the need has become urgent for genuine international support for the Palestinian technocratic committee to administer the Gaza Strip, in a manner that ensures its ability to carry out its humanitarian tasks and guarantees an improvement in the living conditions of the population during this critical phase.