Amnesty International on Monday said Israel is carrying out a “deliberate campaign of starvation” in Gaza after it published new testimonies of starved civilians.
Erika Guevara-Rosas, senior director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International, said, “As Israeli authorities threaten to launch a full-scale ground invasion of Gaza City, the testimonies we have collected are far more than accounts of suffering, they are a searing indictment of an international system that has granted Israel a license to torment Palestinians with near-total impunity for decades.”
According to Amnesty International, the Ministry of Health in Gaza recorded the deaths of 110 children from malnutrition-related complications as of Sunday.
Highlighting the “catastrophic” consequences of Israel’s blockade and genocide for civilians which is causing mass starvation, Guevara-Rosas noted the impact cannot be reversed by increasing the number of aid trucks or “restoring performative, ineffective and dangerous airdrops of aid.”
“Palestinian children are being left to waste away, forcing families into an impossible choice: helplessly hearing the cries of their emaciated children pleading for food, or risking death or injury in a desperate search for aid,” Guevara-Rosas added, reports Anadolu.
Last week, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli defence ministry’s COGAT, rejected claims of widespread malnutrition in Gaza and disputed figures shared by the Gaza’s health ministry.
COGAT oversees civil affairs in the Palestinian territories.
The human rights organisation urged the international community to uphold their moral and legal obligations to bring an end to Israel’s ongoing genocide.
Israel has killed more than 61,900 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the Gaza, which is facing famine.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.