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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Israel expands its mass starvation campaign in Gaza Strip</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Monday 4-December-2023</p><p class="gmail-single_date"><font size="1"><a href="https://english.palinfo.com/news/2023/12/04/310650/">https://english.palinfo.com/news/2023/12/04/310650/</a></font></p>
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<p>GENEVA, (PIC)</p>
<p>Israel has expanded its total ban on humanitarian supplies entering
large areas of the Gaza Strip as part of its ongoing war waged since
Oct. 7, which included the use of starvation weapons against civilians,
the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Monday.</p>
<p>According to Euro-Med, the Israeli army had planned to largely cut
off the central governorate of the Gaza Strip from the southern areas
during the previous 48 hours by imposing restrictions on movement and
limiting the supply of humanitarian aid, such as food and drinkable
water.</p>
<p>Although in small amounts, the humanitarian supplies over the last
two days were confined almost entirely to the Rafah Governorate in the
extreme south of the Gaza Strip. These supplies, the Euro-Med Monitor
said, included sparse distributions of aid, particularly water and
flour. However, humanitarian aid was halted in the neighboring Khan
Yunis Governorate due to Israel’s severe attacks.</p>
<p>Since Israel resumed its attacks on the Gaza Strip last Friday, after
a one-week temporary humanitarian truce, humanitarian supplies have
been completely stopped in Gaza and its northern areas, which have been
isolated by the Israeli army for more than a month as part of its ground
incursions.</p>
<p>According to the Euro-Med Monitor, Israel has extended its
restrictions on humanitarian aid to encompass over 65% of the Gaza
Strip’s total area.</p>
<p>The Israeli orders to evacuate roughly 20% of Khan Yunis City, which
is home to over 110,000 people, and 21 shelter centers that house
roughly 50,000 displaced people—the great majority of whom were
previously displaced from North Gaza—were likewise a cause for deep
concern, according to the Euro-Med Monitor.</p>
<p>Along with its recent orders for evacuation and increased ground
incursions in the Khan Yunis Governorate, the Geneva-based organization
further warned that Israel would soon be expanding its ban on the entry
of humanitarian supplies as part of its plans to forcibly displace the
people of Gaza.</p>
<p>Israel has been using the starvation campaign as a tool of
subjugation since the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip. This
includes bombing and destroying bakeries, factories, food stores, water
stations, and tanks, in addition to cutting off all food supplies.</p>
<p>Since the start of the war, Israel has imposed a complete closure on
the Gaza Strip, halting all food, water, electricity, and fuel supplies.
Subsequently, it prohibited humanitarian aid access to the northern
parts of Gaza City and its surrounding areas. Later, it broadened the
purview of this ban, taking advantage of the lack of the passive
position of the international and humanitarian groups.</p>
<p>The Euro-Med Monitor emphasized that, as the occupying power in Gaza,
Israel is prohibited from using starvation and cutting off humanitarian
supplies as a tool of war and is required by international humanitarian
law to protect and meet the needs of the people living there.</p>
<p>The human rights monitor called for swift international action to
impose a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stop the situation from getting
worse by allowing all residents fair and unrestricted access to basic
and relief supplies and by ensuring that fuel, food, water, medical
supplies, and other necessities are available.</p>
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