News - Middle East: On the occasion of the international day of remembrance of terror victims, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for an end to decades-long Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians and the regime’s occupation of Palestine.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Gaza-based resistance group, while referring to the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, said Palestinians are the prime example of falling victims to Israel’s terrorism and occupation for the past several decades.

“Our Palestinian people have been victims of organized and continuous terrorism for more than seven decades. We call for an end to the … terrorism of the occupying Zionist entity, halt to its aggression, and end to its unjust occupation of our land,” Hamas stated.

Back in 2017, the United Nations General Assembly designated August 21 as an international day to honor the victims and survivors of terrorism in order to allow victims of terrorism to have their needs supported and their rights upheld.

Hamas said while the UN and the countries around the globe celebrate the aforementioned day, “our Palestinian people are still being subjected to the most heinous war of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and systematic destruction of all aspects of human life in the Gaza Strip.”

“Over the course of ten months of aggression and genocide, more than 40,000 martyrs have been killed, most of whom are women and children, in addition to more than 93,000 wounded and injured, over 10,000 missing under the rubble, and thousands who were kidnapped and detained in occupation prisons and detention centers amidst international inability and failure to stop the terrorism of the Zionist entity against more than two million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas said the establishment of such an international day to remember victims of terrorism “places the United Nations and the international community with its institutions and agencies before a historical responsibility to work seriously and responsibly to expose the terrorism of this Zionist entity against our people.”

Hamas added that the occasion also makes the UN “escalate and continue all practical measures to prosecute it (Israel) in the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.”

The resistance movement cautioned the UN against being “satisfied with the statements and condemnations that the fascist occupation” regime makes “in light of the American bias and support, and the absence of (an international) deterrence to curb its terrorism against our land, people and sanctities.”

The regime has had in place a near-total siege on the war-torn Gaza Strip, which has reduced to a trickle the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory.