Starve, Pray, Die. In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions (Carnegie Middle East)

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation, which is affiliated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston. He has worked on issues of famine, humanitarianism, and conflict since the mid-1980s. Among his books is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press, 2017), and he has analyzed the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza for the London Review of Books. Diwan interviewed De Waal this week to discuss his publicly stated views on Israel’s policy of restricting the entry of food to Gaza, and the broader implications of this.

Starve, Pray, Die | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace