There are many ways of starving civilians in international and non-international armed conflicts. The situation of starvation always accompanies these conflicts and is achieved by destroying or disrupting the vital objectives of the civilian population, such as food stores, agricultural fields, water dams and irrigation systems, as well as the policy of scorched earth. This policy aims to starve the fighters, but it starves the civilians by accident. Starvation may occur as a result of the imposition of a blockade, whether land, sea or air, when this blockade prevents the arrival of food and other relief aid to the civilian population Famine . .