Gaza (Union)
In a joint statement, 70 human rights organizations called on all relevant official authorities and competent international and international organizations to officially declare famine in the Gaza Strip in light of the current rapid spread of famine, the rates of acute malnutrition, and the expansion of its area geographically and among all groups, especially among children.
According to Ma’an News Agency yesterday, the organizations that signed the statement, including the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory, highlighted that levels of food insecurity are steadily worsening throughout the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s insistence on committing the crime of starvation and using it as a weapon of war, as part of its broader crime of genocide. Against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The organizations documented a serious deterioration in the levels of food security with the ground attack carried out by the Israeli army in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, since May 7, which was preceded by a day of preventing the entry of humanitarian aid trucks through the Rafah crossing, noting that there are thousands of trucks on the side of the Rafah crossing, parked for weeks. And it is impossible to reach the population whose lives depend on it, as a result of Israel’s decision to starve the residents of the Gaza Strip, close the crossings, and prevent the entry of aid.
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