WHO chief urges Israel to stop ‘catastrophe’ of Gaza starvation

The World Health Organization chief on Friday urged Israel to stop the “catastrophe” of people starving to death in Gaza, where at least 370 people have died from malnutrition since the war began.

“This is a catastrophe that Israel could have prevented, and could stop at any time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the WHO headquarters in Geneva, stressing that “starvation of civilians as a method of war is a war crime and can never be tolerated.”