Israel says it’s acting ‘according to international law’, and accuses Hamas of engineering a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza
Israel has hit back at growing international criticism that it was behind chronic food shortages in Gaza, instead accusing Hamas of deliberately creating a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.
The head of the World Health Organization also weighed in, saying that a “large proportion of the population of Gaza is starving”.
“I don’t know what you would call it other than mass starvation - and it’s man-made,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
But an Israeli government spokesman, David Mencer, said there was “no famine caused by Israel. There is a man-made shortage engineered by Hamas”.
