“Today’s food crises are largely manufactured,” said an Oxfam campaigner, pointing to Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in the Gaza Strip. An Oxfam report published Wednesday estimates that war-fueled hunger is likely killing as many as 21,000 people per day in dozens of countries as parties to global conflicts weaponize starvation […]
“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime.” The top United Nations expert on the right to food on Tuesday accused Israel of perpetrating genocide by intentionally starving Palestinians during the relentless assault on Gaza. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people—around 90% of whom have been forcibly displaced by Israeli bombardment and invasion—are […]
Citing Israel’s declaration of “complete siege,” one critic said the war on Gazan civilians is “proceeding exactly as planned,” including newborns dying within days because their undernourished mothers can’t feed them. Children in Gaza—already reeling from 102 days of U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment that has killed and maimed tens of thousands of them—are now dying of […]
