starvation

Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.

Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say?

6 May 2024 by Anne Van Mourik + Lucy Gaynor

Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders are reportedly – according to sources in The Hague and Israel – being prepared by the International Criminal Court (ICC), possibly related to allegations of starvation. Anne van Mourik [...]

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.

Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere

7 July 2022 by Tom Dannenbaum, Alex De Waal and Daniel Maxwell

Freeing Ukrainian wheat by facilitating its return to world markets is an urgent and timely imperative. But at the same time, warring parties around the world continue to use famine as a weapon, as old as war itself. The authors o [...]