The UN and the wider international community must formally declarea famine in northern Gaza, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has urged, with aid and other necessities blocked from entering the territory for over 50 days amid an offensive and siege on the area. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including dozens of patients in three hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, were “in immediate danger of starvation or long-term health consequences”, the leading NGO warned on Sunday. The monitor added that “Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon is one component of its ongoing genocide in the Strip,…