This coincided with the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis in its south. Borrell had previously criticized the Israeli military tactics that resulted in the deaths of civilians in the Gaza Strip, but he did not condemn the Israeli war, which he viewed as a reaction to the Palestinian resistance operation on 7 October. Shtayyeh urged the world to drop food by parachutes and open the crossings to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, amid the continued starvation crimes by the occupation in the Strip. Shtayyeh also thanked South Africa for filing a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice for committing genocide in its war on the Gaza Strip. In the past few days, the Al-Qassam Brigades claimed their control over two Israeli marches in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
