Palestinian children and adults desperate for food crowd a street kitchen set up by aid organisations in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza, on April 24, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]

United Nations, April 27 (RHC)-- In an interview with Michael Fakhri, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the right to food, the UN official was asked about Israel’s deliberate campaign to starve Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“The United States is complicit in the genocide, in the starvation of civilians,” Fakhri said.  “Let’s look at who controls the borders, who controls the flow of goods and humanitarian aid, who controls everything that goes in and out of Gaza.  It is Israel,” he said.

“What we saw in the last month, one month alone, child acute malnutrition increased by over 80 percent.  So they are using children’s lives and the death of thousands in this negotiation process,” he said.

“Again, there is no condition, there is no political excuse to deny humanitarian aid to civilians, no matter what’s going on on the ground,” he added.

[ SOURCE:  AL JAZEERA ]