Gaza Under Assault and Starvation… Children Are Dying and Mothers Are Resisting!
Gaza today stands at the epicenter of a catastrophe measured not only by the blasts of bombardment, but by a slow death wrought by hunger. Here, children struggle with emaciation instead of bullets, and new chapters of one of the most horrific tragedies of the modern era are being written in the Strip.
While the capitals of the world drown in hesitant statements, Gaza’s mothers wage a battle for survival—digging the earth in desperation, nursing on their own bones, and turning their tears into a flame that shields their children from an unbearable death under the yoke of famine.
Mothers… All They Have Is Hearts That Resist
No longer do Gaza’s mothers merely weep for their little ones; they now resist hunger through sleepless nights, scavenging for drops of water or crumbs of food, transforming missing loaves into impossible dreams. One mother, who lost her twins to starvation, says:
“They used to cry because their bellies were empty… today, my belly is empty of them.”
Today’s Gazan woman is not only a symbol of steadfastness but a fighter against oblivion—confronting the absence of food, medicine, and fuel amid an environment of collective death that makes no distinction between young and old, except that the young are the first to go.
Gaza’s Children… Bodies Slowly Eroding in Full View of the World
Children without milk, without food, without warmth… no schools, no toys, no dreams—only bodies decaying under the sun’s rays, terrorized by aircraft and tormented by the absence of bread.
Scenes of children reduced to living skeletons are no longer rare; they are Gaza’s daily reality: a child carrying a sack of flour larger than himself, another rushed to aid after collapsing in a food queue, and a third killed while trying to grab a package dropped in a “red zone” off‑limits to aid.
It is estimated that in Gaza today, one child dies every ten minutes from famine or malnutrition—not from bombardment, but because a single cup of milk has become a tool of resistance, and one bag of flour can save an entire family.
Airdrop or Deceptive Spectacle?
Some major powers, led by the United States, attempt to polish their image on camera with food airdrops over Gaza, as if offering a lifeline to the drowning. But the stark truth is that what falls from the sky amounts to no more than two aid trucks in total, much of it dropped in unsafe areas or crowded camps of displaced people, causing chaos and further casualties.
“These aren’t aid parcels; they’re political bribes to the global conscience,” says one relief activist inside the Strip. “They want to silence the cries of the starving with a few biscuits, while massacres continue and crossings remain sealed.”
Media outlets call them “humanitarian corridors,” but in reality they are pathways to children’s graves… How can this be humanitarian assistance when the same aircraft delivering it participated hours earlier in bombing a Gaza neighborhood?
The airdrop is nothing but a perfunctory show intended to divert attention from the true crime: the siege and the killing.
What Gaza needs is not bits of food falling from the sky, but a clear decision to open the crossings, end the policy of collective starvation, and halt the assault.
Gaza at the Heart of Famine: This Is Not Poverty… It’s a Death Sentence
With the crossings closed for months, hundreds of trucks are prevented from entering daily—though the Strip needs merely 600 trucks to cover the bare minimum, only 4 percent of that is making it through.
An estimated 40,000 infants are completely deprived of baby formula, and international reports indicate one in three Gazans has gone days without eating. This is not a humanitarian failure—it is a political decision of thirst and hunger.
Point of No Return: The Crime Deepens… Silence Is No Longer Possible
The specter of famine and death is documented by U.N. agencies, yet Israel continues to target aid‑distribution areas, and the international community repeats the same canned condemnations.
“My child died in my arms while I searched for a can of milk”—this testimony is not from a fiction film, but from the daily life of a Gaza mother.
In his latest report, UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini warned: “The worst‑case scenario is happening now; we have crossed the hunger threshold”—yet there is no meaningful global action, only mothers fighting hunger with the nails of their willpower, and children dying in silence as cameras record them like moving images that cannot stir consciences.
A Call to Resistance… Not a Plea for Mercy
The tragedy in Gaza does not need a “humanitarian truce” granted by a criminal occupier, nor an airdrop used as a pretext to whitewash complicit regimes. It needs a genuine stand: a full break of the unjust siege, unrestricted opening of crossings, and immediate, sustained entry of food and medicine.
Gaza does not ask for charity; it demands its rights. This is not a moment for “emergency aid,” but a moment of truth. Every delay in bringing food in is active participation in the crime. Every silence over closed crossings is direct support for a siege of death.
This is not a cry for help from Gaza, but a call to resistance. Whoever fails to hear it now will not escape the repercussions of this silence later.
Gaza needs not pity… but honorable bearers of responsibility.
At this very moment, Gaza fights with empty stomachs, steadfast mothers, and children facing death with innocent eyes. The struggle is not just between an occupier and a resistance, but between civilization and atrocity, between a dead humanity and a people who will not die.
Gaza resists, starves, and is bombarded—but it will never bow. Who will stand with it? Who will remember the children who only dreamed of a single piece of bread?