US Muslim groups urges world to break Israel’s ‘medieval’ Gaza siege
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on global leaders to act to end Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip, which is “resulting in the intentional starvation of women, children and the elderly”.
CAIR said the US government, in particular, is “complicit in this unconscionable campaign of forced starvation”.
“That complicity must come to an end,” it said.
A Palestinian man inspects the damage from an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza’s Khan Younis, April 25
UN special envoy stresses Israel’s ‘starvation campaign’ violates int’l law
Michael Fakhri, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, says there is no excuse under international law that Israel can use to justify its blockade on food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Fakhri noted that Israeli leaders have said they are blocking assistance as a means of exerting pressure on Hamas.
“Under international law, there is no condition in which anyone can deny humanitarian aid to civilians. This is Israel admitting that it is using humanitarian aid for civilians as a bargaining chip, as leverage,” he said.
“They’re using human lives, Palestinian civilian lives, as a bargaining chip, and this is a clear violation of international law. There is no exception to this.”
‘Lives depend on it’: WHO urges end to Israel’s aid blockade
WHO chief Tedros has described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “an awful and grim moment”, citing the latest announcement by the WFP that its food supplies within Gaza have been completely depleted.
“WFP food supplies inside the Strip have run out, even though there is enough food to feed a million people positioned in aid corridors but cannot reach those in need,” he said in a post on X.
Medical supplies are also dwindling, with 16 WHO trucks carrying vital resources awaiting entry into Gaza, he added.
“This aid blockade must end. Lives depend on it,” Tedros warned.
Israel has maintained an eight-week blockade on food, medicine and aid entering Gaza, while continuing aerial attacks on homes and tent shelters – deepening what the UN describes as the war’s “worst humanitarian crisis”.
We've reached an awful and grim moment in #Gaza.@WFP food supplies inside the Strip have run out, even though there is enough food to feed a million people positioned in aid corridors but cannot reach those in need.
The situation is the same with medical supplies. They are… https://t.co/I8udakt0UK
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) April 25, 2025
