Michael Fakhri, special rapporteur on right to food, warns Israeli military attack risks repeat of starvation seen in Gaza
, if Israel follows through with threats to escalate the current military operation which has so far killed more than 2,000 and displaced as many as a million people, according to a leading UN expert.
In June, the UN added Lebanon to its list of hunger hotspots, warning that a quarter of the population faced acute levels of food insecurity amid the simmering conflict, soaring inflation, rising global wheat prices, and diminishing humanitarian aid for the country’s 1.5 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees.over the findings of his latest report,
“There is clear evidence that Israeli officials have used starvation both as a war crime and as a crime against humanity – which are fundamental violations of international law with no exceptions. Famine causes lasting physical and psychological harm to survivors, and may cause harm for generations to come. You cannot turn starvation on and off like a ceasefire.”
Israel has repeatedly rejected accusations of genocide, blamed Hamas for the violence and suffering in Gaza and has said that more aid is being allowed to enter the enclave. The government did not respond to requests for reaction to Fakhri’s comments. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and defense minister Gallant are the first individuals to be“Framing starvation campaigns like the ones we see in Gaza and the Sudan as only a crime under the laws of war is problematic – and empirically impossible. Military supply chains are inherently connected to humanitarian supply chains which are inherently connected to civilian supply chains,” said Fakhri, a law professor at the University of Oregon.
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