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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Arpan Rai

Gaza’s children being starved to death are now too weak to cry, says Save the Children chief

The starving children in Gaza under Israeli siege are too weak now to speak or cry, the head of Save the Children told the UN Security Council.

“The Gaza famine is here. An engineered famine. A predicted famine. A manmade famine. As we speak, children in Gaza are systematically being starved to death. This is a deliberate policy. This is starvation as a method of war in its starkest terms,” Save the Children’s international ceo Inger Ashing told the UNSC on Wednesday.

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