UN committee: Israel war in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’

Israel’s war in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special committee of the UN’s human rights office said, pointing to “mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians” since October 7 last year.

Northern Gaza residents ‘resort to eating grass’

Food shortages are continuing to plague Palestinians in northern Gaza, many of whom depend on charity groups to get just one meal a day.

By Shahrokh Saei

Israel starving Palestinians, Arab states lining their pockets

TEHRAN- Extreme hunger and severe malnutrition have become increasingly widespread in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to impose restrictions on the entry of food and other essentials to the Palestinian territory against the backdrop of the genocidal war that it has launched on the coastal strip since October 7.

By Parviz Rashidi

Cruelty of starving

TEHRAN - All the laws of the war have been largely and unbelievably violated in the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

UN warns of highest level of starvation in Gaza

If war continues unabated, more than one million Palestinians in Gaza could suffer the highest level of starvation by mid-July, according to a report by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

WFP: Northern Gaza in 'full-blown' famine

The UN World Food Program (WFP) director has said the comprehensive famine in northern Gaza might spread south.

Sudan war: What a year of conflict has done to the country in numbers

One year on from the beginning of Sudan's civil war, much of the country has been left in ruins and the death toll continues to rise.

Congresswoman: Israel using ‘starvation as weapon of war’

Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of the US Congress, has accused the Israeli government of committing some of the worst crimes against humanity “of this century” in its war in Gaza.

Borrell: Israel uses starvation as a weapon

The EU foreign policy chief says Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and blocking overland routes that are the best way to get food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians facing famine in the Gaza Strip.

Mother fears 'imminent' loss of last child to starvation

Fadi al-Zant needs urgent food and medicines not available in Gaza due to Israel's war and siege

For the past two months, Fadi al-Zant, a six-year-old Palestinian boy, has rapidly lost weight due to a severe shortage of medicine and food in Israeli-besieged northern Gaza.

Only criminally insane minds can cause so much panic in Gaza

Israeli rulers, even those considered rather moderate, have been seeking a plan to depopulate Palestinians from their motherland. Probably the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel provided the ill-wishers in Israel with an excuse to go ahead with the plan more speedily and more cruelly.