Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC
After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.
It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it.
According to Volker Türk, the UN’s most senior human rights official, there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.