Reuters Al Arabiya.net – March 7, 2024
A UN expert said on Thursday that Israel was destroying Gaza’s food system as part of a broader “starvation campaign” in its war against Hamas militants.
Aid officials have warned of looming famine five months into the campaign against the Palestinian group, while hospitals in the isolated northern part of the enclave say children have started dying from malnutrition.
“Israel is not only denying and restricting the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel is destroying the food system in Gaza,” Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council.
“Israel has mounted a starvation campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” he added, saying that included targeting small-scale fishermen.
Israel denies restricting relief into Gaza and has since last week begun working with private contractors to deliver aid.
It also denies waging war on civilians, saying its fight is with Hamas whose fighters killed 1,200 people and seized 253 hostages during its Oct. 7 attacks.
Israel participates in human rights council debates as an observer and may address the forum later on Thursday.
Fishing sector hit
Fakhri, a Lebanese-Canadian law professor, is one of dozens of independent human rights experts mandated by the United Nations to report and advise on specific themes and crises.
He was due to speak about fishing and climate change but used much of the first part of his speech to the 47-member Geneva council to address the Gaza situation.
He alleged that Israel is targeting small-scale fishers by denying them access to the sea and destroying boats and shacks.
Around 80 percent of Gaza’s fishing sector has been destroyed since Oct. 7, he said, adding that every boat had been demolished by Israeli forces in the main port of Gaza City.
Reuters could not verify that, though images from Oct. 8 showed smoke billowing from a boat at that port after Israeli strikes.

Well, this is a fake news article, but it’s clear for all to see. Well, those of us who don’t wear blinkers.
What has happened in Eastern UKraine, and what is currently taking place in Gaza, is Nazism at work.
You have Russia rebuilding it’s economy, and China doing like wise, and waving the magic peace wand over the Middle East, and the Nazis don’t like it one bit.
They really don’t care who dies, the damage done to countries, homes and economies, all they do is spew pure hate around the world.
This isn’t WW2 Nazism, or Neo-Nazism. No, this is Nazism on steroids, and probably washed down with adenochrome.
I used to post quite a bit on here about missing Nazis Amerikan lambs, you know, the ones that never turn up, not even as rams and ewes. They were big numbers even then, but I heard an updated number.
800,000 Amerikan Nazi lambs go missing every year. 100,000 fentynel deaths, and I don’t know the other drug deaths, suicides and shootings.
This is how the Nazi Amerikan elites like it. Biden didn’t mention one single Amerika social problem. Biden is very happy with what’s happening in Amerika. He’s not happy with UKraine. He wants more death, and he wants his Joo mates to genocide as many Palistinians as possible.
Just think, this is what they would have done to the Syrians, and I can tell you, there are Israelis and Amerikan Nazis who would do the same to the Turks.
The mind boggles at some commentors on here saying it’s not Nazism. Since the Brits dreamt up Nazism some 125 years ago, it has evolved, and they very few who would take an interest in this sort of thing, have multiple layer cognative dissonance.
Col. Douglas MacGregor saying in response to the genocide in Gaza: ‘No, I don’t think it’s that bad, yet’. How fecking bad does it need to get?
Prince Lazy Boy Wills popped up and said ‘too many are dying (in Gaza)’. Again, feck me, how many need to die before you’ll even recognise what is going on?
In other news, family album pic, so say taken by Prince Lazy Boy Wills, looks like it’s a fake. Now, I thought the missing ring was a giver, and the pose, it’s very cramped. But yeh, it’s a fake.
The pic of Kate being driven by her mom, it doesn’t look like Kate. Her face is too wide, and she’s wearing sunglasses, her mom isn’t. If you were out for a spin and you didn’t want to be seen, why wasn’t the visor down? Agencies all around the world have pulled the image.
They say Kate was doing a school run, so there must have been many sheeple public with camaras who could sell to foreign publishers, rather than a terrible telephoto shot, but there’s nothing to see here.
If this image is a fake, then William is party to a conspiracy. For a we know, Kate is dead, and they are training a stand in. Move aside Sir Paul!
The whole thing stinks. All that time in hospital, and two months recovery at home. Not even a pic of her leaving hospital.
Now, while I know the Royals are Nazi spongers, they are important, expecially to bankrupt UK. How can a dishonest Prince take the throne, putting his name to fake images? Get Harry on the phone, please.
Starvation is a cruel way to kill but it’s also certain. That’s why they do it more than the cruelty of it, but if they could kill through starvation in just a week while bringing the same suffering they would choose that.
Jones: It can’t be that you don’t realise, but the reason people on here object to your endless nazi’ing is because it has nothing to do with the nazis, who ceased to exist 80 years ago. Do you have a reason to not say “jew” when you say “nazi”? You also appear to like the “royals”, who’re cunts one and all and should be executed for everything that they do and don’t do. I also noticed that a year ago you were saying that last summer there would be a “mini nova” and everyone would die. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, so you said a couple of days ago that it’ll now happen in a few years instead. Care to explain? I’d be particularly interested in how you or whoever you got it from believes that they know what the biggest thing in the solar system will do – and also, as I’vc always wondered, how you think you know what it is, what it’s made of, how old it is, and all the rest – seeing as though no human has ever been anywhere near it and therefore knows nothing whatsoever about it. As a bonus, how about also explaining how “astronomers” know all about stars trillions of light years away because of “hubble”, but the thing can’t show a picture of armstrong’s bucket and spade where he left it in the moon “landing site”.
Carl Jones–if lazy enough, I read your comment, but today, as often, I skipped to the next one as soon as I saw your first inappropriate use of the term “Nazi”; as usual it was the first of many, all designed to confuse the reader, written by someone who likes seeing children killed, as you told us