Egypt accuses Israel of weaponizing starvation in Gaza, calls for ceasefire – Middle East Monitor

Egypt accused Israel on Saturday of deliberately creating famine in Gaza, urging it to endorse a US-brokered ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas, Anadolu reports.

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said the situation in Gaza “is not a natural disaster but the result of Israeli policy.”

“Starvation is being used as a weapon of war,” he told a press conference in Cairo alongside Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees…