Israel ‘can’t use the excuse of fighters to starve civilians’: Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth, a visiting professor at the Princeton School for International Affairs, says Israel’s attacks on the occupied West Bank have become a “flat-out war” with far-right members of the government wanting to expel all Palestinians from the territory.
“Even though there’s extensive combat between Israeli forces and militants in the Jenin refugee camp, that doesn’t mean there are no rules – the Geneva Conventions still apply,” Roth told Al Jazeera.
“One of the basic rules is Israel has to allow access to humanitarian aid. So it can’t just cut off food, water, electricity and medical care – as we’ve heard it’s doing. It has a duty to allow those for the civilian population. It can’t use the excuse of the fighters to starve civilians, and that’s what it did in Gaza.”
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