The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has criticized the blocking of aid deliveries to those in need in the Gaza Strip. “Starvation is being used as a war arm,” Borrell told the United Nations Security Council in New York on Tuesday. Without naming Israel, Borrell asserted that the crisis was not a natural disaster or an earthquake, but was man-made. Help by sea or from the air is only an alternative to the natural routes over land, but these had been artificially closed. Borrell spoke at a meeting on UN-EU cooperation in New York. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaz…