STARVATION - A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA

 

Israeli Armed Forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys in Gaza since October 2023, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities to ensure their protection, the Human Rights Watch reported. Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the strikes, which killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and those with them. It has been reported that more than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 in Israel, according to the UN.

Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, which is a war crime, as reported by a Human Rights Watch Organization. Doctors and families in Gaza described children, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration, and hospitals are ill-equipped to treat them.

A United Nations-coordinated partnership of 15 international organizations and UN agencies investigating the hunger crisis in Gaza reported that “all evidence points towards a major acceleration of death and malnutrition.” The partnership said that in northern Gaza, where 70 percent of the population is estimated to be experiencing catastrophic hunger. 

Concerned governments should impose targeted sanctions and suspend arms transfers to press the Israeli government to ensure access to humanitarian aid and basic services in Gaza, in accordance with Israel’s obligations under international law and the recent International Court of Justice order. Israel needs to end this war crime, stop this suffering, and allow humanitarian aid to reach all of Gaza unhindered.

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