Starvation 'used as weapon' against Palestinians, Oxfam says

Israel is using “starvation as a weapon of war against Gaza civilians,” Oxfam said in a statement today.

The organisation renewed its calls for aid, food, fuel and water to enter the besieged enclave. 

Oxfam has also found that just two percent of food that would have been normally delivered has entered Gaza since the total siege. 

Despite 62 trucks of aid being allowed to enter southern Gaza via the Rafah crossing since the weekend, only 30 contained food and in some cases, not exclusively so. This amounts to just one truck every three hours and 12 minutes since Saturday, their statement read.

Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Regional Middle East Director said: “The situation is nothing short of horrific - where is humanity?

"Millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.

"World leaders cannot continue to sit back and watch, they have an obligation to act and to act now."