Israel Is Using Starvation To Commit Genocide In Gaza, New Amnesty Report Says
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The report specifically calls out Israel's ongoing aid blockade and near-daily killings of desperate Palestinians at militarized aid distribution sites.
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Israel’s ongoing and widely acknowledged weaponization of food under the guise of humanitarian aid is deliberately being used to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, according to an Amnesty International report published Thursday.
The human rights report highlighted how Israel has been fueling a campaign of mass starvation in the war-torn territory ― particularly since May, when the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began setting up its militarized aid distribution system that most of the international community has warned against.
Since launching the secretive GHF, video and witness testimony show Israeli soldiers opening fire nearly every day on hungry Palestinians corralled into lines at the aid sites, a scene that the United Nations has described as a “killing field” and “a murderous free for all.” At least 600 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food at these sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
“Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physician destruction as part of its ongoing genocide,” Amnesty said in its report, adding that the military has turned aid-seeking “into a booby trap” for desperate families.
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