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High commissioner for human rights describes crisis as human-made as hunger levels worsen
Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza may constitute a war crime, the UN has said, amid mounting and catastrophic hunger in parts of the coastal strip and figures for hunger levels the worst seen under the current classification system.
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, said that Israeli restrictions on the entry of aid may amount to “starvation as a method of war”. It follows the UN secretary general, on Monday describing the food shortages as “entirely man made” and an Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) report, the international standard for measuring food crises, warning of imminent famine in the territory’s north.
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