Conditions are expected to worsen by September, IPC global initiative says, in a ‘race against time’.

<article data-history-node-id="427536" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/deaths-starvation-gaza-may-amount-war-crime-un-rights-chief-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that the officially declared famine in Gaza is the “direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government”.</p> <p>He added that the deaths from starvation might amount to a war crime.</p> <p>“The famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government,” Turk said in a statement to reporters.</p> <p>“It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of willful killing,” he added.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

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