Gaza civil defense spokesperson launches hunger strike

GAZA, July 20 (YPA) – Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense, has announced he is going on a full hunger strike starting today in protest of the “catastrophic famine” unfolding in the besieged enclave.

In a statemen, Basal said: “Gaza is not facing a crisis, but a “documented crime” where children are dying of hunger and aid is being deliberately withheld for political reasons.”

“Using starvation as a weapon of war is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” he said.

Basal called on world leaders, parliaments, the UN, academics, and influencers to take urgent action.

He urged the immediate opening of safe humanitarian corridors, the lifting of Israel’s siege, an international investigation into the use of starvation as a weapon, and a global pressure campaign to end what he called the slow extermination of Gaza’s population.

He concluded his statement by saying, “My hunger strike is not symbolic. It is an act of peaceful resistance against slow-motion genocide.”

@E.Y.M