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Israel using famine as ‘a weapon of war,’ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warns
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Parachutes drop supplies into the northern Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, March 28, 2024
THERE is “nothing natural” about the famine in Gaza and Western pressure on Israel through a total arms embargo is urgent, left MPs and campaigners said today.
They spoke out as the UN’s top human rights official said Tel Aviv could be using starvation as “a weapon of war” in the overcrowded territory as its invasion enters its fifth month.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the BBC that if the intent to do this was proven it would amount to a war crime.
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