Deaths from starvation may amount to war crime: UN rights chief

The UN human rights chief has said the emergence of famine in northern Gaza is the “direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government” and that deaths from starvation might amount to a war crime. “The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government,” Volker Turk said, referring to a report by a global hunger monitor. “It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of wilful killing,” he said.