The (Israeli) Blockade and Starvation in Gaza: A War Crime Between the Provisions of International Law and the Duties of the International Community

Dr. Mohammed Hassan Saad

Director of the World View Institute for International Relations and Diplomacy

United States of America

With the outbreak of the (Israeli)* war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, more than two million people faced a catastrophic humanitarian reality manifested in the occupying power’s (Israel’s) cutting off of electricity and water, preventing the entry of food and fuel, and imposing a suffocating blockade on all crossings. These policies were not entirely new, as the Strip has been under a severe blockade for more than seventeen years. Yet, during this war, they assumed a harsher and more explicit dimension, being openly declared as a systematic strategy aimed at subjugating the civilian population by depriving them of the basic necessities of life.

* For the sake of academic integrity and accurate translation, the word “Israel” has been retained. This does not mean that the Center recognizes it, and what is written represents the author’s opinion and ideas.

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