High commissioner for human rights describes crisis as human-made as hunger levels worsen

Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza may amount to the war crime of deliberate starvation, the UN has said, as the White House called for unimpeded access for aid to the coastal strip.

Amid mounting and catastrophic hunger in parts of the coastal strip and official UN figures for hunger levels the worst seen under the current classification system, the Biden administration added it was “deeply concerned” following a report about potential famine in the Palestinian territory.

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