The WHO chief warns Israel that causing famine in Gaza “does not help hostages”
The famine already declared in Gaza because of the Israeli block “will not make Israel safer or facilitate the release of hostages,” as warned the general director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has reiterated his call to put an end to that deliberate catastrophe.
“The most intolerable thing about this disaster caused by the human being is that they could stop right now, people are starving while the foods that could save them remain in trucks a short distance,” said Tedros in his weekly press conference.
The Ethiopian expert has added that using hunger in the civilian population as a weapon “is a war crime that can never be tolerated”, and has affirmed that its use in Gaza feels a dangerous precedent for future conflicts.
Tedros recalled that at least 370 people have died from malnutrition in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict almost two years ago, more than 300 only in the last two months, and has warned that “when hunger arrives, the disease also does.”
“Above all, we ask the Government of Israel to put an end to this inhuman war and, if you do not, I call on its allies to use their influence to stop conflict,” Tedros concluded. (EFE)
