# A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 30, 2024** 11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Online; registration below** [ Register here arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iunXWSKOSGySlZVJWMOn-w#/registration) Join the [Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights](https://fxb.harvard.edu/racial-justice/palestine-program/) 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](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iunXWSKOSGySlZVJWMOn-w#/registration). *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:** **Contact:** [Nadine Bahour](mailto:nbahour@hsph.harvard.edu) See also:- [ Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored ](/eventseries/ad-hoc-or-co-sponsored) - [ Government ](/research-field/government) - [ Israel ](/research-region/israel) - [ Palestinian Territories ](/research-region/palestinian-territories) - [ 2023-24 ](/academic-year/2023-24) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/1573166/event-feed.ics) Copy link link