After the Palestinian foreign minister accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against around 1 million Gazans, an Israeli official rejected the charge as “obscene”, Reuters reports.

“As we speak, at least 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, half of them children, are starving, not because of a natural disaster or because of lack of generous assistance waiting at the border,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a U.N. event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In remarks to reporters, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Meirav Eilon Shahar, criticised al-Maliki’s address for making no mention Hamas and its attack on Israel.

“Nothing about Oct 7, nothing about the atrocities that were committed by Hamas,” she said, speaking alongside the mother of US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin.