A war crime “Rights Watch”: Israel uses starvation as a weapon against civilians in Gaza

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday evening that Israel's use of starving civilians as a weapon in the Gaza Strip constitutes a "war crime."

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday evening that Israel's use of starving civilians as a weapon in the Gaza Strip constitutes a "war crime."

The human rights organization added in a post on its account on the X platform, “The Israeli authorities deliberately prevented the delivery of water, food, and fuel and obstructed the entry and distribution of aid into Gaza.”

She stressed that "using starvation of civilians as a weapon is a war crime."

Israel restricts the entry of aid into Gaza; This led to a scarcity of food, medicine and fuel supplies and created a famine that began to claim the lives of children and the elderly in the Strip, which is inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians, including about two million displaced as a result of the war, and which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years.

Despite the start of the month of Ramadan, the Israeli occupation continues its devastating war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice. Charged with "genocide".