{"id":1563939,"date":"2024-03-20T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/man-made-famine-charge-israel-mounting-evidence-un-gaza"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:35:32","slug":"man-made-famine-charge-against-israel-is-backed-by-mounting-body-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/20\/man-made-famine-charge-against-israel-is-backed-by-mounting-body-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Man-made famine\u2019 charge against Israel is backed by mounting body of evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prospect of Israel facing war crimes charges has moved closer after UN condemnation of Gaza aid restrictions<\/p>

The accusation by the UN and other humanitarians that Israel may be committing a war crime<\/a> by deliberately starving Gaza\u2019s population is likely to significantly increase the prospect of legal culpability for the country, including at the international court of justice.<\/p>

Amid reports that the Israel Defense Forces are hiring dozens of lawyers to defend against anticipated cases and legal challenges, the charge that Israel has triggered a \u201cman-made famine\u201d by deliberately obstructing the entry of aid into Gaza is backed by an increasing body of evidence.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prospect of Israel facing war crimes charges has moved closer after UN condemnation of Gaza aid restrictionsThe accusation by the UN and other humanitarians that Israel may be committing a war crime by deliberately starving Gaza\u2019s population is likely …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18751,287,6,1217,72064,640,1258,2019,520,166,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563940,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563939\/revisions\/1563940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}