Smotrich: It may be 'justified' to starve 2 million Gazans, but world won't let us

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implied on Monday that he believes blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is “justified and moral” even if it causes two million civilians to die of hunger, but the international community won’t allow that to happen.

“We bring in aid because there is no choice,” Smotrich said at a conference in Yad Binyamin hosted by the right-wing Israel Hayom outlet. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.

“Humanitarianism in exchange for humanitarianism is morally justified — but what can we do? We live today in a certain reality, we need international legitimacy for this war.”

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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced in May that he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for, among other charges, “causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies.”

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us/