The United Nations has strongly condemned the killing of civilians in Gaza who were attempting to access food, calling it a potential war crime. teleSUR
00:00The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs denounced that people in the Gaza Strip are being killed while trying to get food.
00:10The director of OSHA, Jonathan Whithall, pointed out that trying to survive in Gaza becomes a death sentence.
00:16In a briefing, Whithall warned that Israel is carrying out massacre and is using hunger as a weapon.
00:22The organization denounced that Israel's militarized humanitarian assistance mechanisms contradicts international norms.
00:30Israel's militarized humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international standards on aid distribution.
00:40It endangers civilians and contributes to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
00:48The weaponization of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services,
00:58constitutes a war crime and under certain circumstances may constitute elements of other crimes under international law.
