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On the 12th local time, at the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Palestinian Foreign Minister Maliki accused Israel of artificially creating famine in the Gaza Strip and starving the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Al-Maliki: As we speak, there are at least 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, half of whom are children, who are starving. This is not because of natural disasters or because of the lack of generous assistance from the outside world, they are starving because Israel deliberately uses hunger as a war** against the people of the occupied lands.
Al-Maliki stressed that eating and drinking were once the most basic rights enjoyed by all human beings, but the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are now deprived of this most basic right. He called on the international community to pay sufficient attention to this issue and to exert sufficient pressure on the Israeli side.
Previously, Maliki had said on October 26 that Israel was waging a "war of revenge" against the Gaza Strip with the aim of completely destroying the area. There was no clear plan for this war and it violated the rules of war.