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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Hasson, Nir; Yaniv, Kubovich (2024-11-11). "The Israeli Army Is Allowing Gangs in Gaza to Loot Aid Trucks and Extort Protection Fees From Drivers". www.haaretz.com Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2024-11-19. …looting of the convoys reflects the complete anarchy that prevails in Gaza due to the lack of any functioning civilian government. … Defense officials confirmed that the IDF is aware of the problem. (the Israeli government) considered making the clans to which the armed men belong responsible for distributing aid to Gaza's residents, even though some of the clans' members are involved in terrorism, and some are even affiliated with extremist organizations like the Islamic State. "Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel's challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant Image". www.icc-cpi.int International Criminal Court. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population. Nick Spicer (21 November 2024). "The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant". www.npr.org NPR. Retrieved 21 November 2024. Israel rejects the court's allegations, which include the use of starvation as a weapon of war and "intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population." The ICC also issued a warrant Thursday for the arrest of Muhammad Deif, Hamas' military chief. "Gangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say". www.washingtonpost.com The Washington Post. 18 November 2024. Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Irfan, Bilal; Abu Shammala, Abdallah; Saleh, Khaled (November 2024). "Will there be a future for newborns in Gaza?". The Lancet. 404 (10464): 1725–1726. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02249-9. …the onset of famine is coupled with a deterioration of maternal health services, severely impacting the wellbeing of pregnant women and of children. "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri: Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people's food sovereignty (A/79/171) [EN/AR/RU/ZH] - occupied Palestinian territory". reliefweb.int ReliefWeb. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.

Although true, the current count might be misleading. It took me a while to dig into it but is seems like malnutrition deaths are commonly presented as a death rate, i.e deaths per 100,000 people, as can be seen on the [1]WHO Death Rate From Malnutrition. Rural Philosopher (talk) 22:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The last statement of the lead currently is "On 21 November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, asserting that the pair "bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare". However, if we actually read the Guardian source, the actual quote is "The chamber ruled there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for 'the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare'. The end of the lead thus (1) puts the quote in the wrong place (i.e. the court's quote does not include the criminal responsibility part), and (2) omits the entire setup in the article that the court ruled these were reasonable beliefs, not facts of law. Note I'm citing the same Guardian report quoted in our Wikipedia article.

Indeed, there's no precedent for the ICC pretrial chamber ever having ruled the assertion of its prosecutor is not a reasonable belief. If we want to include info about the ICC in the lead, it needs to be reworked so that it's not misinformation.

One good possibility is merging it with the top of the previous paragraph where other global organization-affiliated individuals are noted to make similar claims. This also has the advantage of not presenting the statement out of context of the parties of other statements. The sentence " In April and May, USAID and the US State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration determined that Israel was blocking food aid from entering Gaza." could be followed by "On 21 November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, finding there exists reasonable grounds for the ICC prosecutor to believe they committed "the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare". This could then be followed by the same statement "These findings were rejected by Secretary of State Blinken and the Biden Administration", just adding in an extra citation about how they also reject the ICC claims (e.g. https://il.usembassy.gov/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-warrants-issued-by-the-international-criminal-court/; or if you prefer https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/biden-administration-fundamentally-rejects-icc-warrant-netanyahu; in addition to the citation already there from ProPublica).

Or you could deal with it another way (I can't edit here yet) but regardless make sure that the misinformation stops (i.e. the article doesn't say the ICC asserts that Netanyahu and Gallant bear responsibility for crimes which is false as explained above) and all internationally contentious claims are balanced by their well-covered counterclaims in the lead.

Also relatedly I would remove the line in the body that says in Wikivoice "The use of starvation as weapon of war is banned by the United Nations.[392][393] Since then it was used in both Gaza and Sudan.[394]" This claim indeed is not out of place in the article but could only be included as an attributed statement not in Wikivoice. Further, the cited Lancet article does not even claim in the authors' voice that starvation is a weapon of war in Gaza. Instead, it quotes Volker Turk just like we already do in this article and accurately portrays the hedging of his quote: "Volker Türk has stated that there is a plausible case that Israel is now using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza", a weaker claim than appears in Wikivoice here.

Scienceturtle1 (talk) 07:40, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I request that "62,413 estimated" be removed from the infobox. There was an RFC at Gaza genocide: Talk:Gaza genocide/Archive 7#RfC about starvation estimate. There was a clear consensus to not use this same estimate in the infobox, and especially without attribution, because it was deemed an extraordinary estimate.

The closing of the RFC stated "There is a consensus to exclude the estimate from the infobox. Editors generally agreed that the statistic is too extraordinary to justify its inclusion on the basis of the sources available in an infobox, whose purpose is to summarize key facts and is a notoriously poor means of conveying anything requiring explanation."

I think the same rationale applies to this article and the extensive archived discussion on here also showed no consensus to include it without attribution. The estimate was in a note before and properly attributed. That could be a compromise. Wild2024Shard (talk) 20:08, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Melmann 22:17, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]