A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights on Tuesday April 30 at 11am EST for a conversation about the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Human Rights Watch, Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, and using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza which is a war crime according to international law.

Register here.

Speakers:
Alex De Waal, DPhil, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation

Michael Fakhri, PhD, LLM, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Georgios Petropoulos, MA, Head of Gaza sub-office, UN OCHA

Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSC, FXB Director of Research

Speakers remarks are based on their own scholarship. As such, they speaker for themselves, not for Harvard University.

Co-sponsors: Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiativce at the Harvard Divinity School; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Link: https://fxb.harvard.edu/event/a-looming-famine-starvation-in-gaza/
Contact: Nadine Bahour