Gaza's Government Media Office says the United States and its key ally, Israel, are using the policy of starvation as a tool to exert political pressure on the Palestinians, condemning the practice as “a war crime and a crime against humanity.”

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are considered to be among the ministers most likely to face sanctions. 

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry demands the ICC issue an arrest warrant for Israel's minister Bezalel Smotrich over a call to starve Gazans.

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Bezalel Smotrich says the death of two million Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip from hunger might be “justified and moral.”

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has censured certain Arab countries for their inaction in the face of relentless Israeli attacks on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Starvation of people in Gaza is a war crime with devastating effects that will be felt for generations, says a famine expert, urging urgent humanitarian intervention.

Aid groups press to stop "man-made" famine expected to kill 755,000 people in Sudan.

Around half a million Palestinians in Gaza are grappling with food insecurity.

Nearly half a million Palestinians in Gaza face severe food shortages, according to the UN and humanitarian organizations.