Israel uses starvation as a weapon in Gaza war - UN human rights envoy Volker Türk
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UN Human Rights Representative Volker Türk accuses Israel of using hunger as a weapon of war in Gaza, citing statistical evidence of artificial famine in his report.
In his report, a UN official offered statistical evidence that the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is turning into an artificial famine. This was reported by UNN with reference to BBC.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in an interview with the BBC that Israel bears significant blame, as it has been documented that hunger is being used as a weapon in the war against Hamas in Gaza. According to the UN official, if the intent is proven, it would amount to a war crime.
In an interview from Geneva, Volker Türk said he condemned Hamas's attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers on October 7, including murder, rape, and hostage-taking. But he also said that neither side in the war should evade responsibility for its actions.
He is currently confirming that there is evidence that Israel is slowing down or stopping aid deliveries to Gaza.
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Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Advisor Zachi Hanegbi were to fly to the United States on Monday to demonstrate alternatives to the planned ground offensive in Rafah. Kirby, the National Security Council's communications director, said there was no indication that "the Israelis are immediately preparing to conduct a ground operation in Rafah" or that it could happen in the coming days.
"It looks like they are still a long way from entering Rafah," Kirby said.
At the time, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli army had already developed plans to bring civilians to safety.
Meanwhile, Israel's diplomatic mission to the United Nations in Geneva called the UN human rights expert's report on the war in Gaza a disgrace to the Human Rights Council.
"Thus, the report is an obscene inversion of reality in which a so-called expert can make outrageous accusations, the more extreme the better," the mission wrote on Monday on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
According to media reports, UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese has previously accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip in a still preliminary version and called the creation of a Jewish state a "settlement-colonial project.
The Italian lawyer is a rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, but does not speak on behalf of the UN.
