A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza

On Tuesday, April 30, 2024 the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights hosted a virtual conversation about the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Human Rights Watch, Israeli forces at the time were deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, and using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza which is a war crime according to international law. The webinar speakers were Alex de Waal, an expert on mass starvation and the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, and Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the Gaza United Nations sub-office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories. The webinar was moderated by FXB’s Director of Research, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc.
Read Alex de Waal’s April 2024 publication in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Famine in Gaza: an example of the global humanitarian crisis": tinyurl.com/3d...
This event was co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Speakers’ remarks were based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they spoke for themselves, not for Harvard University.