UN: Israel denying food to Gaza is 'weapon of war'

The head of the main UN agency for Palestinians has told the BBC that Israel's blockade of food deliveries to Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a war crime. Philippe Lazzarini of UNRWA told the BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen the Israeli government had weaponised food by stopping supplies for more than two months. Jeremy Bowen will give us the latest.

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OS presenter: Joe Inwood.

(Photo: An internally displaced Palestinian boy walks between destroyed buildings in the streets of Al Shejaeya neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City on, 12 May 2025. Credit: Photo by MOHAMMED SABER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)