Starving Gaza 'is a war crime', says UN rights chief

Quelle: AFP (Glomex)

"It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare," says UN spokesperson Jeremy Laurence as he reads a statement from UN rights chief Volker Turk, after famine was declared in the Gaza Strip. "The resulting deaths may also amount to the war crime of wilful killing," he adds. SOUNDBITE