Starvation is used as a weapon of war in Gaza

report Mehr News Agency quoted by Arab News, during the emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council regarding the Gaza war, the Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations, “Samuel Jalvogar”, told 15 members of the Security Council He said: Famine is happening in Gaza. If we met today in northern Gaza, all 15 of us would have missed our meals in the past months. Ten of us spent whole days and nights without eating. Half of us will be in dire need of humanitarian aid, and eventually, at least five of us will be parents of severely malnourished children, a life-threatening condition with lifelong consequences.

Jabogar warned that starvation is being used as a weapon of war in Gaza. Waiting to declare a famine won’t change anything on the ground, he said, but we know what will: an immediate ceasefire. full, safe and unimpeded access, especially by land, to the provision of safe, nutritious and adequate food, water and medicine; () Revival of health, water and sewage services and energy supply. Providing adequate shelters for civilians will be very important.

Caroline Rodríguez-Birkett, Ambassador of Guyana, also expressed regret over the war in Gaza and said that it is a cause for concern that the Ramadan ceasefire order contained in the recently approved Resolution 2728 It has been completely ignored and the humanitarian situation in Gaza has worsened. “A pattern has emerged in this conflict of indiscriminate attacks on humanitarian workers and agencies, including UN agencies,” he said. The collective punishment strategy imposed on the Palestinian people uses starvation as a method of war and it is time to end the war.

In this meeting, “Janty Suripto”, head of the Save the Children Organization, told the members of the Security Council: “If I sit here and only the name and age of every Palestinian child It takes more than 18 hours to read that they died on and after October 7.

He said 14,000 children had been killed in the past six months of war and thousands more were missing, believed to have died and been buried under the rubble. Souripto added that children are deprived of food or water or starve to death due to the illegal siege.

He stated that 350,000 children under the age of 5 are at risk of starvation and added: “The world is staring at the human-made famine barrel.” Hunger is of particular concern in northern Gaza, where people have now resorted to eating animal feed or leaves.

Sweripto warned the members of the Security Council that if we continue on this path, everyone involved in the war will be in clear violation of the laws of war and international humanitarian law. they do, there is zero accountability, and powerful countries refuse to use their influence levers to prevent mass deaths of children in Gaza due to bullets and bombs, or from hunger and malnutrition.

An emergency meeting of the Security Council regarding the situation in Gaza was held on Friday. Members of the United Nations called on the Security Council on Friday, citing Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, to compel Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire in Gaza until the end of Ramadan and allow humanitarian workers to distribute aid freely. The emergency meeting of the Security Council was held at the request of Algeria with the support of Guyana, Switzerland and Slovenia to discuss the danger of famine in Gaza and attacks by Israeli forces on aid workers.

Also, in this meeting, “Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad Al-Wasil”, the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations and the head of the Arab countries group at the Security Council meeting, said: “The group Arabi wants this council to adopt a resolution based on the seventh chapter of the UN Charter. Ensure that Israel, the occupying power, adheres to the ceasefire and that the people of Gaza have access to humanitarian aid and that the evil aggression against and protection of the Palestinian people ends.

Security Council resolutions are supported by the rules of international law and are therefore legally binding. Chapter 7 of the UN Charter empowers the Security Council to order military action and civilian measures such as sanctions to ensure the implementation of its resolutions and restore “international peace and security”.