{"id":348223,"date":"2025-08-16T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348223\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:55:09","slug":"live-un-calls-israeli-west-bank-settlement-plan-a-war-crime-as-31-palestinians-killed-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348223\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: UN calls Israeli West Bank settlement plan a war crime as 31 Palestinians killed in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Nobel Prize winners are among a slate of 23 of the most highly-regarded economists in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a>\u00a0and Europe who penned a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1D_Sv3JnUnxZ-Ha-rkHIPh52IJfscAtcM\/view?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to rescind his plans to militarily occupy Gaza City, and urging him to allow unrestricted food aid into the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>The first signatory to the letter is Nobel laureate, MIT economist, and co-author of the international bestseller\u00a0Why Nations Fail,\u00a0Daron Acemoglu. He shared the letter on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dacemoglumit\/status\/1955995903174557881?s=61\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We write with urgent concern about the spreading starvation in Gaza and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israeli<\/a>\u00a0government\u2019s plan to concentrate civilians in a so-called &#8216;humanitarian city,'&#8221; the letter says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As human beings and as economists and scientists, we call for an immediate halt to any policy that intensifies widespread starvation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The second paragraph denounces the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, but adds, &#8220;that does not absolve the Israeli government, which controls the flow and distribution of aid, of responsibility&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/nobel-laureates-top-economists-urge-netanyahu-halt-gaza-occupation-starvation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten Nobel Prize winners are among a slate of 23 of the most highly-regarded economists in the\u00a0US\u00a0and Europe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-348223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036430262112235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}