UNICEF: More than one million children in Gaza suffer from a severe lack of food security

UNICEF emphasized today (Tuesday): More than 95 percent of families in Gaza have reduced the food quota for adults so that more meals reach children.

This organization under the United Nations also added: We need to send humanitarian aid in a safe and unlimited way to the people of Gaza across this strip.

On Tuesday, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, in a conversation with the Guardian newspaper, emphasized that denying access to food is a war crime and causes genocide, and announced that Israel The deliberate form makes the Palestinians hungry.

Michael Fakhri added: Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and genocide due to its deliberate act of starving the Palestinians.

In this exclusive interview, he emphasized: There is no reason to intentionally prevent the passage of humanitarian aid or to intentionally destroy small fishing boats, greenhouses, and gardens in Gaza, except that people do not have access to food. be deprived.

This UN official added: Deliberately depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has shown its intention to destroy all or part of the Palestinian people – just because they are Palestinians.

He continued: In my opinion, as a UN human rights expert, this situation is genocide, and it means that Israel is entirely guilty and must be held accountable, and this accountability is to this person and that person or this cabinet and Another cabinet is not limited.

Fakhri, who is a law professor at the University of Oregon, warned: The rate of malnutrition among young children is also surprising. Bombing and killing people directly is brutal, but this hunger is agonizing and terrible. This will have a long-term impact on the population physically, cognitively and morally. All the evidence shows that these actions were intentional.

The issue of hunger and severe malnutrition is common in Gaza, and the population of about 2,200,000 Palestinians faces severe shortages due to the regime’s actions in preventing access to food and limiting the flow of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid. are.

In Rafah, where the military attacks of the Zionist regime are currently focused, five percent of children under the age of 2 are severely malnourished.

Source: IRNA