Report also refers to Israel ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’ and running ‘apartheid system’ in West Bank

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A UN special committee has said that Israeli policy and practice in Gaza is “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.

The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.