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#starvation

The deliberate deprivation of food or the creation of conditions leading to starvation. Using starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute.

2 incidents

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.

Grade 5 of 5: International Crime (Rome Statute)

Saudi Arms Deals and Complicity in Yemen War Crimes

Trump's first foreign trip was to Riyadh, where he announced a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The U.S. continued to provide refueling, intelligence, and targeting support for Saudi-led coalition strikes in Yemen throughout the first term, even as the UN documented mass civilian casualties, attacks on protected sites, and a blockade causing mass starvation. Congress passed a War Powers resolution to end U.S. involvement, which Trump vetoed in April 2019, and he vetoed three resolutions disapproving arms sales in July 2019.