The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories “B’Tselem” said that 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip suffer from hunger, as a direct result of Israel’s declared policy that deprives them of food.
The center added, in a series of blog posts on its account on the X platform, that “the residents of Gaza are now completely dependent on supplies from abroad, as they can no longer produce almost any food themselves.”
He stressed that “2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip suffer from hunger, as a direct result of Israel’s declared policy that deprives them of food.”
The Human Rights Center explained that the Israeli authorities only allow the entry of a small portion of the amount of aid that entered before the war, while imposing restrictions on the types of goods, instead of allowing enough food to enter the region.
B’Tselem stressed that “allowing food to enter Gaza is not a favor, but rather a positive obligation under international humanitarian law, and refusing to comply with this obligation constitutes a war crime.”
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which as of Monday left 23,84 martyrs and 58,926 injured, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to official sources. Palestinian and international.
