Human rights group Amnesty International accused Israel of having adopted a “deliberate policy” of famine in Gaza while the United Nations and aid groups warn famine in the Palestinian enclave.
In a report citing the displaced Palestinians and the medical staff who have dealt with children with malnutrition, Amnesty said: “Israel leads a deliberate famine campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
The group accused Israel of “systematically destroying health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life”.
“This is the planned result of the plans and policies that Israel has conceived and implemented, in the last 22 months, to deliberately inflict on the Palestinians in the living conditions of Gaza calculated to cause their physical destruction – which is an integral part of the genocide in Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza,” said Amnesty.
Israel killed nearly 62,000 Palestinians and transformed Gaza into rubble since he launched his military offensive on October 7, 2023. Activists and rights organizations qualified him as a revenge war and identified Israeli actions as a genocide.
The International Criminal Court has published arrest mandates against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes.
The report is based on interviews conducted in recent weeks with 19 Palestinians moved to Gaza Shelter in three makeshift camps as well as two members of medical staff in two hospitals in Gaza City.
“I fear a miscarriage, but I also think of my baby. I just panic, thinking of the potential impact of my own hunger on the health of the baby, his weight, that he will have (criminals for the holidays) and, even if the baby is born in good health, which life awaits him, in the middle of the trip, bombs, tents”, Hadeel, 28, a mother, which was quoted.
A 75 -year -old woman told Amnesty International that she wanted to die. “I feel like I have become a burden for my family.
Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International, Said in a stattement: “AS Israeli Authorities Threaten to Launch a Full-Scale Ground Invasion of Gaza City, the testimonies we have been collected are Far More Timants of Suffering, Searing Indictment of An International System that has Grants Israel a License to Torment Palestinians with Near-Total Impunity for decades.
Nearly a million Palestinians from Gaza City, many of whom have been moved several times in the past two years, have faced forced travel because Israel has intensified its attacks on the main urban center of the enclave.
Truce
Rosas called for “an immediate and unconditional lifting of the blockade and a sustained ceasefire” to reverse “the devastating consequences of inhuman policies and actions of Israel” in Gaza.
Rosas concluded: “The impact of the blocking of Israel and its continuous genocide on civilians, especially on children, disabled people, those who suffer from chronic diseases, the elderly and pregnant women and breastfeeding is catastrophic and cannot be defeated by increasing the number of emergency trucks or by restoring performative, ineffective and dangerous assistance drops.”
The Israeli army and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have not made declarations on Amnesty’s conclusions at the time of publication.
Israel, while strongly restricting aid to the Gaza Strip, repeatedly rejected the statements of deliberate famine.
More than 250 Palestinians, including 110 children, died of malnutrition during the war due to the Israeli blockade. The enclave – which houses 2.1 million people – was already under an Israeli, air and maritime blockage since 2007, but since the start of the war, Israel has tightened it, sometimes preventing all the help of entering and now only allows only a net of supplies in the band.
In a report published last week, the Israeli military organization supervising civil affairs on Palestinian territory rejected the allegations of generalized malnutrition in Gaza despite a general conviction of the UN and the international community in general.
‘Famine takes place before our eyes’
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan and several of their European allies have called Israel to allow without restriction in Gaza, stressing that the humanitarian crisis has reached “unimaginable levels”.
“Famine takes place before our eyes. An urgent action is now necessary to stop and reverse famine,” Foreign Ministers and the first diplomat of the European Union said last week in a joint statement.
In April, Amnesty accused Israel of having committed a “live genocide” against the Palestinians by forcibly shifting the Palestinians in Gaza and by creating a humanitarian disaster in the besieged territory, affirms that Israel rejected at the time as “blatant lies”.