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Al Jazeera
05-04-2025
- General
- Al Jazeera
Will Israel's starvation policy work in Gaza?
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is getting worse by the day. The United Nations World Food Programme has warned it only has food stocks to last a few days. With limited supplies and no fuel, all bakeries have already closed across the Strip. That's left Palestinians with no food, no home, and no sense of security. Israel has been blocking humanitarian aid from entering the Strip for more than a month. So, is famine now inevitable? Presenter: Adrian Finighan Guests: Ahmad al-Najjar – Resident in Gaza who's been reporting on the war Sam Rose – Acting director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Martin Griffiths – Director of Mediation Group International Firas El Echi – Journalist, host of the Here's Why podcast
Middle East Eye
05-04-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israel's killing of Gaza aid workers 'almost certainly a war crime', says ex-UN official
Martin Griffiths, the former UN humanitarian chief and current executive director of Mediation Group International, has condemned Israel's killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza as 'almost certainly a war crime'. 'It's almost inhuman,' he told Al Jazeera in a rebuke. 'I don't understand the culture within the [Israeli military] and those platoons for them to be able to do this. It's a complete inhumane horror.' Griffiths, who once led the UN's emergency relief operations, didn't mince words. In his view, a this ws moment that demanded global reckoning. 'It's something to grieve, to observe, to record and to remind,' he said. Griffiths is now pushing for action, calling on countries bound by the Geneva Conventions to demand an independent investigation. 'This must go through the UN Security Council,' he insisted, 'and then presumably to the International Criminal Court.'
