Kuwait has called on the international community to prevent Israel’s weaponisation of “starvation” b against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and to ensure the implementation of their guaranteed right to food through the delivery of humanitarian aid.
The appeal was made yesterday by Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO), Yousef Juhail, during the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security at its headquarters in Rome. The meeting touched on the siege and starvation imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, according to reports by the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
“Kuwait calls on the member states of the committee to adhere to the right to food for all and without discrimination in accordance with the Charter of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the UN,” said Juhail. “It also stresses the need not to use it as a weapon to starve the Palestinian people.”
In this regard, he called on member states and the international community to expedite the delivery of food and humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, and called on the UNFAO and all its member states to search for urgent solutions to confront the severe shortage of food and water in the enclave.
Source : MEMO