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Starvation In Gaza Is Being Used As Weapon, Says EU

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell, has claimed that starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza.

Borrell described the lack of aid entering the territory as a “manmade” disaster.

Even though a Spanish ship carrying desperately needed food supplies has left Cyprus for Gaza, the UN says it cannot replace the delivery of aid by land.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has meanwhile vowed to press on with an offensive in southern Gaza.

The quickest, most effective way to get aid into the territory is by road, but aid agencies say Israeli restrictions mean a fraction of what is needed is getting in.

Attention has instead shifted towards alternative routes including sea and air drops.

Israel has said it is not to blame for Gaza’s food shortages as it is allowing aid through two crossings in the south.

But addressing the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, Borrell said the humanitarian crisis in the territory was as a result of a lack of viable land routes.

“We are now facing a population fighting for their own survival.

“Humanitarian assistance needs to get into Gaza, and the European Union is working as much as we can in order to make it possible.

“The humanitarian crisis is manmade and when we look for alternative ways of providing support by sea, by air, we have to remind ourselves that we have to do it because the natural way of providing support through roads is being artificially closed.

“Starvation is being used as a war arm and when we condemned this happening in Ukraine, we have to use the same words for what is happening in Gaza.”

His comments come after the UN warned at least 576,000 people in Gaza, one quarter of the population, were one step away from famine.

The territory’s Hamas-run health ministry has also said at least 27 people, many of them being children, have died as a result of malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals there in the last two weeks.

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