A man-made famine

Britain must recognise a Palestinian state and bring to an end the Gaza humanitarian crisis

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Israel has made food a weapon of war in Gaza. The evidence of a deliberate policy of starvation is swelling the ranks of those who say that Benjamin Netanyahu's government is conducting a genocide of the Palestinians.

It is driving friends of Israel to despair; many of those who deplore the barbarism of Hamas, and respect Israel's right to defend itself after the terrorist attacks of 7 October 2023, have had enough. Inside Israel, mass demonstrations against the government and the war continue, but look increasingly like rallies of impotence and shame. Outside the country, national governments and international agencies decry Israel's killing of 60,000 people, the inhuman treatment of Palestinians and the impending famine, but they, too, seem powerless to bring peace.