24.4.4 Gaza starvation could amount to war crime.

Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC5 hours agoBy Jeremy Bowen,BBC international editor, Jerusalem ShareBBC Noora MohammedBBCNoora Mohammed can't get the treatment she needs in a Gaza hospital After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.수 개월간의 경고 후에 최근 유엔의 후원을 받은 한 보고서는 가자지역에서의 인도주의적 재앙이 인위적인 굶주림으로 변하고 있다는 확실한 증거를 제시했다 It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it.이 보고서는 이스라엘이 팔레스타인 민간인들을 보호하고 인도적 지원이 필요한 법적인 책임을 다 해야 한다는 압력을 증가시키고 있다 The UN's most senior human rights official, Volker Türk, said in a BBC interview that Israel bore significant blame, and that there was a "plausible" case that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Mr Türk, who is the UN high commissioner for human rights, said that if intent was proven, that would amount to a war crime. Israel's economy minister, Nir Barkat, a senior politician in Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, dismissed Mr Türk's warnings as "total nonsense - a totally irresponsible thing to say".  Like his cabinet colleagues, Mr Barkat insisted that Israel was letting in all the aid offered by the US and the rest of the world. Israel says the UN fails to distribute whatever is left once Hamas has helped itself. But a long line of lorries fully loaded with aid supplies desperately needed in the Gaza Strip is backing up on the Egyptian side of the border with Rafah. They can only enter Gaza through Israel, after a complex and bureaucratic series of checks. The absence of adequate supplies has forced Jordan, and now other countries including the US and UK, to drop aid from the air - the least effective way to deliver humanitarian supplies.적절한 물자가 공급되지 않아서 지금 요르단과 미국, 영국을 포함한 다른 나라들은 인도적인 물자를 공급하기위한 가장 효과가 적은 방법인 항공기에 의한 원조물자 투입을 할수밖에 없다 Palestinians on the ground fighting to secure a share have drowned as they try to swim to pallets that have landed in the sea, or have been crushed when parachutes fail.나누어주는 물자를확보하기 위해 지상에서 싸우던 팔레스타인 인들은 바다로 떨어진 팔레트에 헤엄을 쳐서 가려다 빠져죽거나 낙하산이 펴지지 않아 깔려죽기도 했다  0:48Watch: Gazans reportedly drown after video shows rush for aid drop that landed in sea The US Navy is also sending an engineering flotilla across the Atlantic to build a temporary pier to land aid by sea. None of that would be necessary if Israel Granted full road access to Gaza and expedited the delivery of relief supplies through the modern container port at Ashdod, only about half an hour's drive north of the Gaza Strip. In an interview from Geneva, Mr Türk said evidence had emerged that Israel was slowing down or withholding the delivery of aid. Mr Türk condemned the Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers on 7 October, including killing, rape and hostage-taking.  But he also said that no side in the war should evade accountability for its actions, including for any attempt to withhold aid supplies from the people who need it in Gaza.그러나 그는 또한 전쟁의 어느쪽도 가자지구에서 도움이 필요한 사람들에게 구호품전달을 보류하려는 시도를 포함한 자신의 행동에 대한 책임을 회피해서는 안된다고 말했다 "All of my humanitarian colleagues keep telling us that there is a lot of red tape. There are obstacles. There are hindrances… Israel is to blame in a significant way," he said.  "I can only say the facts speak for themselves… I understand that this needs to be controlled, but it cannot take days for it to be done.나는 명백한 사실이라고 말할수 밖에 없다....나는 통제가 필요하다는것을 이해하지만 그 일이 이루어지는데 여러날이 걸릴수는 없는것이다 "When you put all kinds of requirements on the table that are unreasonable in an emergency… that brings up the question, with all the restrictions that we currently see, whether there is a plausible claim to be made that starvation is, or may be used as, a weapon of war."긴급한 상황에서 비 합리적인 모든 종류의 요구사항을 제시하면... 우리가 지금 보는 모든 제한조건으로 인해 굶주림이 전쟁의 무기가 되는지, 또는 무기로 사용될수 있는지에 대한 그럴듯한 주장이 될수있는지 의문이 제기된다  Concern about humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip deepened last week with the release of a soberly written commentary alongside a series of maps, charts and statistics. It prompted more warnings from Israel's allies that it should change the way it is fighting the war against Hamas to spare civilians from death from either high explosive or hunger. The study is the latest report from a respected international network, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, known as IPC. It provides governments, the UN and aid agencies with apolitical data to measure the scale of hunger. The headline on the report was stark - "Gaza Strip: Famine is imminent as 1.1 million people, half of Gaza, experience catastrophic food insecurity." Its data explained how famine could come at any time in the next eight weeks or so if there was no ceasefire and relief aid did not pour into the Gaza Strip.  Palestinian parents who had managed to bring sick and hungry children to one of the few hospitals still operating in Gaza after Israel's onslaught did not have to wait for the statistics. For weeks and months, as they struggled to feed them, they have watched their children decline.이스라엘의 맹공격이후 병들고 굶주린 아이들을 가자지역에서 아직도 운영중인 몇 안되는 병원중 한곳으로 데려온 팔레스티안 부모들은 통계숫자를 기다릴 필요가 없었다. 몇주, 몇달동안 아이들을 먹이기 위해 애를 써오는 동안 그들은 아이들이 쇠약해지는것을 지켜보아왔다 Gaza is no place to be ill. One young girl at the hospital, reached by a Palestinian freelance journalist working for the BBC, lay semi-conscious on a bed.가자는 병든 장소가 아니다. BBC에서 일하는 팔레스타인인 자유계약직 기자가 찾은 병원에서는 한 어린소녀가 침대에 반쯤 의식을 잃은채 누워있었다 The girl, Noora Mohammed, has lung and liver fibrosis, conditions that can be fatal even in peacetime. In the months of starvation since the war began, and without the right medical care, she is deteriorating fast. "My daughter can't move," her mother said. "She's anaemic, always sleeping, and there's nothing nutritious to eat." At least Noora reached hospital. Most of just over one million Gazans considered to be in acute need will not have that option.  The evidence of Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe is overwhelming. Our pictures from the hospital showed children with swollen joints, wasted limbs and dermatitis, all classic symptoms of acute malnutrition. Child in Gaza hospital visited by Palestinian freelance journalist working for the BBCThere are signs among children of acute malnutrition Israel has ignored the UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire. Nir Barkat, the Israeli economy minister, said that nothing would be allowed to get in the way of Israel's war aim of smashing Hamas for good and freeing the hostages taken on 7 October.이스라엘은 즉시 휴전하라는 유엔안보리 결의를 무시했다. 니르 바르캇 이스라엘 경제부장관은 하마스를 영원히 박살내고 10월7일 납치된 인질들을 구출하려는 이스라엘의 전쟁목표를 방해하는것은 아무것도 허용되지 않을것이라고 말했다  Allies around the world, he said, supported Israel's strategic goal. When I pointed out many of Israel's friends, starting with US President Joe Biden, did not like the way Israel was fighting the war, Mr Barkat was blunt. What is famine and why are Gaza and Sudan at risk?Israel says UN resolution damaged Gaza truce talksSouth Gaza hospital closed after evacuation - paramedics "That's tough. We are going to finish the war. We'll do everything we can to kill the Hamas terrorists and to minimise collateral damage as much as we can," he said. "With all due respect, we're fighting evil, and we expect the world to help us fight evil until we finish Hamas off the map." The UN high commissioner for human rights had a succinct response to stinging criticism from Israel. "The only thing I can say to them is that there is an emerging international consensus, and it may not have been there before, but it is clearly there now, including with this week's Security Council resolution, on the humanitarian situation," Mr Türk said. "The human rights situation is so tragic that an immediate ceasefire is required. That's my response to that."