from Press TV
A United Nations rights expert has called for international sanctions against Israel, saying such punitive measures are the only means of ending the occupying regime’s months-long genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, made the plea in a social media post on Sunday.
“Israel has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,” Fakhri wrote.
He added, “Now, famine may very well be already occurring. The only way to end/prevent this famine is an immediate ceasefire. And the only way to get a ceasefire is to sanction Israel.”
On Friday, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), warned that in the absence of any changes in the war, the coastal sliver was on course to experience an all-out famine...
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