Ramallah, July 22 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa has accused Israel of deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war in the Gaza Strip, warning that the territory is facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster due to the ongoing blockade.

The remarks were made during a press conference on Monday, July 21, at his office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, attended by several UN agency representatives. Mustafa called for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza, urging the international community to act against what he termed a deliberate policy of deprivation.

"Nearly 900,000 children in Gaza - 93 percent of the child population - are at imminent risk of death from hunger," he said, citing warnings ...