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‘Deaths from starvation in Gaza may amount to war crime’, UN rights chief says
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<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>
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