This came in a statement issued by the movement's leader, Izzat al-Rishq, in response to statements by US President Donald Trump, in which he alleged that the movement was "stealing" aid.
Earlier on Friday, Trump, speaking to the Axios news website, accused Hamas of "stealing" aid entering Gaza, expressing concern over reports of famine in the territory.
According to the news website, Trump stated that work is continuing on a plan to provide aid to the Gaza Strip, which is suffering from a humanitarian disaster caused by Israel, without providing any details.
Commenting on this, Al-Rashq said, "We strongly condemn US President Trump's reiteration of Israeli allegations and lies accusing Hamas of stealing and selling humanitarian aid in Gaza." He continued, "Trump's accusations are false and devoid of any evidence. They exonerate the criminal and hold the victim responsible."
Al-Rashq explained that "reports and testimonies from international organizations, including the United Nations, have previously refuted these allegations, and they were recently refuted by an internal investigation by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which confirmed that there are no reports or data indicating that aid has been stolen by Hamas."
He stressed that "the systematic starvation and genocide taking place in Gaza is a direct result of the US-backed occupation policy, which uses food and medicine as weapons of war against more than two million people."
Al-Rashq called on the US administration to "assume its moral and legal responsibilities, condemn the war of starvation and unjust siege imposed by Israel on our people in Gaza, and stop providing cover and support for this crime."
He also called on her to "support efforts to deliver aid safely and fully to all Palestinians without restrictions or conditions, while emphasizing that it be distributed through the United Nations, not through the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which acts as a trap for killing the hungry and those in need of aid," he said.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, visited a humanitarian aid distribution center affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, with the aim of conveying a clear picture of the humanitarian situation in Gaza to Trump, according to the privately owned Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
This visit comes amid a worsening famine and malnutrition crisis in Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of 162 Palestinians, including 92 children, since October 7, 2023, until Friday, according to the latest statistics issued by the Ministry of Health in the Strip.
Since the genocide began on October 7, 2023, Israel has been simultaneously committing a starvation crime against the Palestinians of Gaza. On March 2, it tightened its measures by closing all crossings to humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, causing famine to spread and reaching "catastrophic" levels.
Although Israel has "allowed" dozens of humanitarian trucks into the Gaza Strip since Sunday, which needs a minimum of more than 600 trucks per day to save lives, it has facilitated and provided protection for the theft, according to a statement from the government media office in Gaza.
The US-backed genocide left approximately 208,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
