Over 1,000 rabbis accuse Israel of weaponizing hunger

GAZA: More than 1,000 rabbis from around the world have accused Israel of weaponizing hunger in Gaza and urged West Jerusalem to allow aid into the enclave.

According to UN Palestinian refugee agency chief Philippe Lazzarini, around 90,000 women and children are suffering from malnutrition in what relief groups describe as a man-made famine caused by the Israeli blockade.

Rabbis and Jewish scholars from the US, UK, EU, and Israel signed an open letter declaring that the Jewish people “face a grave moral crisis.”

“The severe limitation placed on humanitarian relief in Gaza, and the policy of withholding food, water, and medical supplies from a needy civilian population, contradict essential values of Judaism as we understand it,” the letter reads.

The rabbis called on Israel to allow “extensive humanitarian aid” while preventing diversion to Hamas and demanded that Israel “work urgently by all routes possible to bring home all the hostages and end the fighting.”