UN expert accuses 'Israel' of 'starvation campaign' against Gaza
In his poignant report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food highlights the severe humanitarian crisis unfolding in the besieged territory. | A UN expert has accused "Israel" of conducting a "starvation campaign" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, warning that the entity is weaponizing humanitarian aid to inflict harm on residents of the besieged area. ● In a report presented to the UN General Assembly this week, Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, stated that since the Israeli military aggression against Gaza began in early October of the previous year, the flow of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies has been severely restricted.
💬 "By December, Palestinians in Gaza made up 80 percent of the people in the world experiencing famine or catastrophic hunger," Fakhri stressed. ● He further noted, "Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza."
Fakhri also highlighted that reports of the destruction of Gaza’s food system have been received since the Israeli aggression began, with documentation provided by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other sources. He emphasized that “Israel then used humanitarian aid as a political and military weapon to harm and kill the Palestinian people in Gaza.”