Gaza official on hunger strike to protest Israel's food weaponization
The spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense has announced that he is going on a full hunger strike to protest Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people.
Mahmoud Basal, the public face of Gaza’s emergency rescue and relief teams, stated on Sunday that he is beginning an open-ended hunger strike.
“My hunger strike is not symbolic,” he emphasized. “It is an act of peaceful resistance against slow-motion genocide.”
He highlighted that, like over two million people in Gaza, he is surviving on scraps of food due to the complete lack of basic supplies.
Basal described the “catastrophic famine” affecting Gaza as not just a humanitarian crisis, but rather “a documented crime.”
Through its blockade of Gaza, Israel has imposed sweeping restrictions on the entry of food, medicine, fuel, and humanitarian relief. Human rights organizations say the blockade is central to Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in the Palestinian territory.
Basal urged world leaders, parliaments, the United Nations, academics, and influencers to take urgent action as starvation spreads across Gaza.
He called for the immediate opening of safe humanitarian corridors, the lifting of Israel’s siege, and an international investigation into the use of starvation as a method of warfare.
Basal also warned that unless global pressure is mounted, Israel’s policy will amount to the slow extermination of Gaza’s population.
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