Two Israeli rights groups said Israel was carrying out "coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza strip."

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -When two human rights groups became the first major voices in Israel to accuse the state of committing genocide in Gaza, breaking a taboo in a country founded after the Holocaust,

The two groups said they found deliberate intent by Israeli decision-makers to target the whole population of Gaza and destroy life for the Palestinian people.

The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.

A U.N.-backed group’s finding is the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began.