“Gaza is literally starving. Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war“ Yasmine Ahmed

Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch, delivered this statement at the 2024 Conference of Civil Society Organisations working on the Question of Palestine, themed “Building Bridges with International Civil Society to Address the Ongoing Nakba.“ This event was convened by the UN Palestinian Rights Committee on April 3-4, 2024, at the Palais de Nations in Geneva. In her speech, Yasmine Ahmed highlighted the dire situation in Gaza and the broader region, spotlighting the decades-long impunity and the disturbing levels of international complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people. Yasmine Ahmed emphasized, “We are witnessing the sixth month of ongoing atrocities in Gaza, amidst decades of crimes, including apartheid inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel.“ She pointed out the grim statistics: “Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, and 72% of the over 70,000 injured are women and children.“ She starkly criticized the international community’s respo