Israel's Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that the starvation of Gaza's population of more than 2 million Palestinians 'might be just and moral' until hostages captured in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel are returned home.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, on July 10, 2023. Israel's Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that the starvation of Gaza's population of more than two million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until hostages captured in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel are returned home.
The European Union on Wednesday condemned his remarks, noting that the “deliberate starvation of civilians is a war crime.” The ongoing war sparked by Hamas' attack has plunged Gaza into a humanitarian catastrophe. The vast majority of its population has been displaced within the blockaded territory, often multiple times, and hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps. The leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, said in June that Gaza was at “high risk” of famine.
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