Starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza – our government is complicit
JVL Introduction
Starvation is being used by Israel as a weapon of war. Western governments are complicit.
Medical Aid for Palestinians reports: “This is the fastest decline in a population’s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.”
Meanwhile, there is no doubt that Israel fired at starving Gazans gathering round a food aid convoy on 29th February. At least 117 people were killed and more than 760 injured.
The BBC reports that EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borell, described the incident as “totally unacceptable carnage”.
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights also commented on the outrage, calling on the British government to “act in full adherence with its legal obligation to ensure respect for international humanitarian law: it must at last call and work for an immediate ceasefire.”
We also link to the Al Jazeera report of the attack on the convoy crowds where Marwan Bishara provides analysis.
Finally we link to a story in the New York Times headed Starvation is stalking Gaza’s children.
RK
This article was originally published by BBC News on Fri 1 Mar 2024. Read the original here.
Israel-Gaza war: UN chief urges probe into aid convoy tragedy
Several countries have joined the UN in calling for an investigation into the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians during an aid delivery in Gaza.
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The international and national law courts will EVENTUALLY be able to charge and prosecute many of the offenders responsible for these horrors. Successes in the law courts may deter national leaders from committing similar crimes in future. They’ll be far too late to save thousands – maybe hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian lives.
The world will also remember and damn the names of those directly responsible for committing these atrocities or actively failing to prevent them. In the end, what good will that do?
We need a much more powerful, better resourced system of international justice to identify, arrest and charge those who commit crimes against international law. I think we’re still at the preliminary stages of building such an organisation. The UCJ and ICC need more powers and support than they currently have.
Well maybe Biden WILL have to ban the US supplying arms to Israel … hopefully in time to save many who’d otherwise die.
“Bay News” reports 29 Feb:-
“On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit agreed to EXPEDITE consideration of a decision that put a roadblock on an attempt to STOP President Joe Biden and other government officials from providing money and weapons to Israel for use in their war against Hamas in Gaza.”