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#famine

Situations of extreme food insecurity caused or exacerbated by deliberate policy, including use of starvation as a method of warfare, destruction of food infrastructure, and blockades preventing humanitarian food deliveries.

3 incidents

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Repeated US Vetoes of UN Security Council Gaza Ceasefire Resolutions

The US was the sole dissenter blocking Gaza ceasefire resolutions supported by all other Security Council members, while famine and allegations of genocide continued in Gaza. The pattern of vetoes enabled continued military operations with devastating humanitarian consequences.

Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: US-Funded Aid Scheme Where Hundreds Were Killed Seeking Food (May–November 2025)

The Trump administration backed and funded a privatised aid scheme in Gaza whose four sites became scenes of near-daily shootings of hungry people, overwhelmingly by Israeli forces. The UN counted 859 killed near GHF sites in its first two months. The US approved $30 million for GHF after the killings were known. Whether that support amounts to complicity in war crimes is plausible but not established.