Michael Fakhri, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, has spoken to Al Jazeera about Israel’s deliberate campaign to starve Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“The United States is complicit in the genocide, in the starvation of civilians,” Fakhri told Al Jazeera.

“Let’s look at who controls the borders, who controls the flow of goods and humanitarian aid, who controls everything that goes in and out of Gaza. It is Israel,” he said.

“What we saw in the last month, one month alone, child acute malnutrition increased by over 80 per cent. So they are using children’s lives and the death of thousands in this negotiation process,” he said.

“Again, there is no condition, there is no political excuse to deny humanitarian aid to civilians, no matter what’s going on on the ground,” he added.