Prime Minister declares the Gaza Strip a famine zone

RAMALLAH /PNN /

Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa declared the Gaza Strip a famine zone on Wednesday.

During a press conference on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, attended by the government’s emergency operations room, Mustafa called on the entire UN system to immediately activate its mechanisms and treat Gaza as a famine zone.

He called on the international community to implement UN resolutions prohibiting the use of starvation as a weapon of war….