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  • 8 months ago
The "willful impediment of access to food and other life-sustaining relief supplies for civilians may constitute a war crime," says United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Jeremy Laurence, discussing the situation in Gaza at a press conference in Geneva.
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00:00Palestinians have been presented the grimmest of choices – die from starvation or risk
00:08being killed while trying to access the meagre food that is being made available through
00:14Israel's militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism.
00:19This militarised system endangers lives and violates international standards on aid distribution
00:28as the United Nations has repeatedly warned.
00:32Willful impediment of access to food and other life-sustaining relief supplies for civilians
00:39may constitute a war crime.
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