{"id":14617,"date":"2018-09-10T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2018-09-10T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:27:17","slug":"has-starvation-become-a-weapon-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14617","title":{"rendered":"Has starvation become a weapon of war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"94\">\n<p>One child living in a warzone may die of hunger every minute.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the startling assessment from the UK-based charity Save The Children.<\/p>\n<p>The group released a report on the use of hunger as a weapon in some of the world&#8217;s worst conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>It said 4.5 million children under five will need treatment for severe malnutrition before the end of the year. That&#8217;s a 20 percent increase from 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of children could die in Yemen, Afghanistan, and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest number of fatalities is expected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 300,000 children are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Children warned starvation is increasingly used as a weapon with warring parties blocking food and medicine &#8211; leading to devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, intentionally starving civilians is a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>So, what should be done to deal with the crisis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Hoda Abdel-Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sultan Barakat &#8211; director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies<\/p>\n<p>Justa Hopma &#8211; research fellow at Global Food Justice at The University of Sheffield, UK<\/p>\n<p>Keyan Salarkia &#8211; Save the Children spokesman<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One child living in a warzone may die of hunger every minute. That&#8217;s the startling assessment from the UK-based charity Save The Children. The group released a report on the use of hunger as a weapon in some of the world&#8217;s worst conflicts. It said 4.5 million children under five will need treatment for severe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}