NEW YORK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The UN special rapporteur on the right to food on Wednesday warned that Israel is carrying out an unprecedentedly rapid campaign of starvation in Gaza, calling it “the fastest in modern history.”
“How is Israel able to starve 2.3 million people so quickly and so completely?” Michael Fakhri asked in a joint press briefing alongside other UN special rapporteurs in Geneva.
“This is the fastest starvation campaign in modern history,” Fakhri said.
As the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza is stopped by Israel, he said: “This is not a ceasefire by any definition. This is a slowing down of military violence, but … unfolding of death through starvation.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip earlier announced that hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received 12 martyrs, and 14 wounded, over the past 24 hours.
