Starvation policy

Hamas: The UN report on starvation in Gaza requires urgent intervention

Saturday-7-September-2024

“The report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip requires urgent intervention to relieve our people,” Hamas Movement said in a statement on Saturday.

Israel bombs, starves Gaza

Tuesday-27-August-2024

Commission of Detainees says Ofer prisoners suffer from starvation, harsh conditions

Wednesday-24-July-2024

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has said that the Palestinian prisoners in Ofer jail are suffering from harsh incarceration and health conditions and real starvation.

China calls for not weaponizing hunger in Gaza

Thursday-4-July-2024

China has called for not using starvation as a weapon and refraining from politicizing humanitarian issues in the war-torn Gaza Strip, calling on the US administration to pressure Israel to remove obstacles preventing the delivery of aid to the population.

Hamas accuses US of being accomplice in starvation campaign against Gaza

Saturday-29-June-2024

The humanitarian situation in the Gaza has become tragic, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan emphasized on Saturday, warning of imminent casualties due to food shortages, which are pushing the Strip toward famine.

A stark example of starvation policy, prisoner Jadallah loses half his weight in Israeli jails

Friday-19-April-2024

After losing half his weight in six months in Israeli custody, prisoner Imad Jadallah was released on Thursday from Israeli jails, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

HRW: Israel uses starvation as a weapon against Gaza children

Tuesday-9-April-2024

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that “children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war,” calling such an Israeli practice a “war crime.”

UN calls for sending aid to Gaza overland

Thursday-28-March-2024

The UN has stressed the importance of delivering enough aid to the Gaza Strip overland to save human lives, warning that obstacles to aid entry persists and time is running out.

9,100 Palestinian detainees face hunger and violations in Israeli prisons

Tuesday-12-March-2024

As the blessed month of Ramadan started, the Israeli occupation prisons continue their policy of starvation against more than 9,100 prisoners since October 7th, including women, children, and the sick, alongside restricting their religious practices such as prayer, call to prayer, and Quran recitation.

UN experts condemn flour massacre, urge Israel to end campaign of starvation in Gaza

Wednesday-6-March-2024

UN experts on Wednesday condemned the violence unleashed by Israeli forces, which killed at least 112 people gathered to collect flour in Gaza last week, as a “massacre” amid conditions of inevitable starvation and destruction of the local food production system in the besieged Palestinian enclave.