Jordan’s Queen Rania al-Abdullah accuses Israel of “starving an entire population under siege” in Gaza, during a speech at a conference in Mexico.
Rania posts her speech on Facebook, in which she says, “The scale of destruction we are witnessing in Gaza is catastrophic. Its brutality is undeniable. Homes and histories are being crushed under the rubble.”
“Tens of thousands of people have been killed. Israel is starving an entire population under a siege that cuts off every lifeline. Exhausted doctors, themselves hungry, are struggling to treat the wounded amid severe shortages of supplies. Brave journalists reporting from the frontlines are being killed with impunity.”
“There is no world in which it is justifiable to bomb hospitals, starve children, or shoot at people seeking aid,” she adds.
Israel has denied intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza, accusing Hamas of looting and hoarding supplies, and claiming aid groups are not properly cooperating with collecting and distributing supplies that it allows to cross the border.
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