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Israel's starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy: Amnesty

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Aug 18, 2025

Leading international rights group Amnesty International has released a new report featuring testimonies from displaced civilians in Gaza, indicating that the Israeli regime has been deliberately starving Palestinians, systematically destroying their health, well-being and social fabric.

The report, published on Monday, underscores the organization's repeated findings that the deadly combination of hunger and disease is not an unfortunate byproduct of Israel's military operations.

"It is the intended outcome of plans and policies that Israel has designed and implemented, over the past 22 months, to deliberately inflict on Palestinians to bring about their physical destruction - which is part and parcel of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza," the report said.

"The world cannot continue to pat Israel on the shoulder for trickling in aid and viewing these cosmetic measures as a sufficient response to its calculated destruction of the life of Palestinians in Gaza," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, senior director for research at Amnesty International.

While calling for an immediate and unconditional lifting of the siege on Gaza and a sustainable ceasefire, she said: "As Israeli authorities threaten to launch a full-scale ground invasion of Gaza City, the testimonies we have collected are far more than accounts of suffering, they are a searing indictment of an international system that has granted Israel a license to torment Palestinians with near-total impunity for decades."

Guevara-Rosas also criticized world leaders for engaging in "rhetorical posturing" while millions around the world continue to take to the streets in protest against "Israel's deliberate and systematic campaign of starvation to inflict unbearable suffering on an entire population."

"Palestinian children are being left to waste away, forcing families into an impossible choice: helplessly hearing the cries of their emaciated children pleading for food, or risking death or injury in a desperate search for aid," reads Amnesty's findings.

Over the last few weeks, Amnesty International interviewed 19 Palestinians, from three makeshift camps, as well as two medical staff members treating malnourished children in two hospitals in Gaza City.

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