Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
The United Nations relief agency for Palestinians said Thursday that Israel i authorities continue to hinder aid efforts by failing to approve requests for delivery and permits, as two other U.N. agencies separately issued dire warnings about large-scale starvation in Gaza this week. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said Israel has frequently denied the agency's aid-related requests, The Guardian reported.
'Blocking humanitarian aid and creating the conditions for famine is not only an act of extreme cruelty—using starvation as an act of war—but it is a violation of both American and international law,' he said. It is a war crime.' Using starvation as a weapon is a war crime. We know that children in Gaza are dying of malnutrition.
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