<article data-history-node-id="424789" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-condemns-israels-use-food-gaza-weapon-war" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-condemns-israels-use-food-gaza-weapon-war" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN condemns Israel’s use of food in Gaza as a weapon of war</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="73" data-start="0">The United Nations has strongly condemned the “weaponisation of food” in Gaza, warning that such actions by Israel’s military amount to a war crime.</p> <p data-end="461" data-start="231">“The weaponisation of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime,” the UN human rights office said in written remarks ahead of Tuesday’s briefing.</p> <p data-end="653" data-start="463">It also criticised Israel’s current aid delivery model, saying: “Israel’s militarised humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international standards on aid distribution.”</p> <p data-end="731" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="655">The UN urged Israeli forces to “stop shooting at people trying to get food.”</p> </div> </div> </article>