Gaza subjected to forced starvation, top UN official tells BBC
- The UN's Ajith Sunghay condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid system on 27 May 2025 in Gaza for failing civilians amid severe shortages.
- This failure stems from Israel's blockade since 2 March 2025 that restricts humanitarian aid, aiming to depopulate northern Gaza and cut off food and medical supplies.
- On 27 May, desperate civilians overran a GHF distribution point in southern Gaza, leading to Israeli forces firing and causing three deaths and around 50 injuries.
- Sunghay criticized the Israeli-American aid distribution system in Gaza as untenable and degrading on a collective level, cautioning that it is unfair, biased, and dependent on external control, thereby using starvation as a deliberate tactic.
- The UN urges urgent international action to end this siege, highlighting that nearly half of Gaza’s 2.4 million people are displaced with acute humanitarian needs.
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UN: Gaza aid plan is ’collective humiliation’ by US and Israel
A top UN human rights official has condemned the Israeli-American mechanism for distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza on Saturday, calling it "unsustainable" and a form of "collective humiliation" that deepens the suffering of Palestinians enduring a war described by the UN as genocidal in nature. Ajith Sunghay, representative of the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territories, said the aid distribution system operated by the…
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