Volker Türk tells Jeremy Bowen there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war.

It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfill its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it.

The UN’s most senior human rights official, Volker Türk, said in a BBC interview that Israel bore significant blame, and that there was a “plausible” case that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.

Mr Türk, who is the UN high commissioner for human rights, said that if intent was proven, that would amount to a war crime.

    • Flying Squid
      19•8 months ago

      I don’t know why there’s even supposedly room to doubt.

      • applepie
        5•8 months ago

        they need this doubt because they need political cover while they are doing it.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
      11•8 months ago

      So… Netanyahu admin and IDF in Hague when?

      • @Viking_Hippie
        0•8 months ago

        Idunno, but I’m arranging for wings and jet engines to strap on pigs…

  • ivanafterall
    13•8 months ago

    So there’s still a chance they’re systematically, intentionally murdering a targeted group of people in the non-war-crime way?

  • @riodoro1
    3•8 months ago

    The UN is a fucking joke at this point.

  • audalics
    3•8 months ago

    Finally, one of the war crimes might amount to war crimes!