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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, says that a projected imminent famine in war-torn Gaza "can and must be prevented". In a recorded statement, he warns that Israel's restrictions on the entry of aid and its ongoing attacks "may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime". SOUNDBITE
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin says that the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was an Israeli operation and his visit to Israel was not aimed at setting a timeline for the conflict. SOUNDBITE
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses Israel of war crimes and "genocide" in Gaza, as he chaired an extraordinary summit of the BRICS group of nations on Tuesday. Pretoria is hosting a virtual meeting of BRICS, a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, aimed at drawing up a common response to the Israel-Hamas conflict. IMAGES
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, amid fighting between Israel and Hamas that has raged for more than five weeks. IMAGES
"We are concerned that war crimes are being committed. We are concerned about the collective punishment of Gazans in response to the atrocious attacks by Hamas, which also amounted to war crimes," UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says during a press conference in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
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