Gaza… Hunger Besieges Hope and Humanity Struggles Against Pain and Oppression
A people fighting death by starvation, international law waving like a mirage, religious and human bonds groaning under the weight of betrayal, while the Zionist-American war machine grinds what remains of life in Gaza. Here unfolds the tragedy of the century: what is happening is systematic genocide, deliberate starvation, and forced displacement—against a backdrop of shameful global silence and unforgivable Arab and Islamic abandonment—except for the courageous stances of the Axis of Resistance.
How Is Hunger Used as a Weapon in Gaza?
In a brutal scene that assaults the conscience, Gaza’s suffering appears as a dark chapter in the book of human history. It is the story of a suffocating siege where food has become a weapon of war, water a luxury, and life itself a daily bitter struggle. “You can smell death everywhere,” Ramez Obeid, a relief worker and father of two, told the British outlet iPaper, describing the besieged sector. Displaced children sleep in the streets, starving, chasing a morsel that has become more valuable than life. The price of a kilogram of flour has surged to $27, and a family meal can exceed $100, while fresh meat, poultry, and vegetables have been absent from people’s lives for months—leaving lentils and fava beans as the only protein sources.
Reports from the World Food Programme confirm that 75% of Gaza’s population faces emergency levels of hunger, and one-quarter lives in famine-like conditions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has raised his voice denouncing “the use of hunger as a weapon,” clearly pointing to the actions of the Zionist entity. As experts note, the situation in Gaza is “entirely man-made,” constituting a “policy of deliberate starvation” far removed from ordinary food crises. The World Health Organization describes it as “man-made mass starvation,” and over 100 international relief organizations have confirmed that Gazans’ bodies are wasting away under the siege’s weight.
In its July 3 report, Amnesty International revealed that the deadly plan of the Zionist entity—backed by the United States—intends to weaponize aid as another tool in the starvation war. Since March, the entity imposed a total blockade on food entry, then in May shifted to a tightly controlled new distribution system that drastically reduced available supplies, allowing only 10% of monthly needs to enter. Despite claims by the occupation’s “COGAT” that aid is being allowed and facilitated, UNICEF has exposed repeated denials of movement requests and the absence of safe corridors to collect or distribute aid.
Militarizing aid distribution, turning it into a mechanism of control, and preventing humanitarian organizations from fulfilling their duty has made obtaining food a daily survival struggle. The notorious “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” backed by the United States and operated by private security firms, has left the poorest and weakest without food—turning the path to a sack of flour into a blood-soaked trail. According to the spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Commission, more than a thousand Palestinians have died trying to obtain food.
Aid has become a death trap, with sound grenades and live fire unleashed on starving civilians—revealed by a former American combatant who worked within that institution—asserting he was never required to shoot unarmed civilians as has occurred in Gaza.
Collapse of Laws and Principles… Silence That Assassins Values
What is happening in Gaza has crossed every humanitarian and legal red line, yet global silence and Arab-Islamic abandonment trample all the values and principles upon which human civilization is built. Infrastructure is being destroyed, hospitals targeted, and food and water access blocked—all manifestations of deliberate policy promoted by prominent Zionist ministers, turning these acts into fully constituted war crimes under UN Resolution 2417 of 2018, which criminalizes the use of starvation as a weapon.
Professor of international law Tom Dannenbaum sees mass starvation as the societal equivalent of individual torture—aimed at breaking the victim’s resistance and subjugating them. Hunger here doesn’t merely kill bodies; it corrodes the social fabric, undermining cohesion and governance capacity. It is a form of long-term genocide through food control: providing just enough calories to prevent mass death while maintaining severe hunger that destroys community life, with the goal of reengineering a once-resilient society into scattered individuals trapped in survival struggles.
The Minnesota starvation experiment of the 1940s revealed the devastating physical and psychological effects of hunger—depression, anxiety, food obsession, emotional blunting. Now imagine Gaza’s victims, subjected to far more brutal, intentional starvation, pushed to the brink of despair and psychological collapse. This is a calculated psychological war targeting the mental state of everyone in the Strip: from broadcasting recordings of children’s and women’s screams via drones, to last-minute evacuation orders before bombardment, to forced permanent displacement. Médecins Sans Frontières has described these policies as a deliberate attempt to turn Gaza into a living hell.
Betrayal of Bonds and Zionist-American Lawlessness
The religious ties binding Arabs and Muslims to the people and holy places of Palestine go beyond sentiment—they impose a duty of support and protection. What we see instead is shameful betrayal: condemnations and descriptions with no serious action to pressure the entity to stop the aggression and starvation. In contrast, the Yemeni stance stands out as a bright exception, offering military and popular backing that confirms the enduring values of resistance and solidarity in the consciences of the honorable.
A Guardian article exposed the involvement of major American corporations—dubbed the “Magnificent Seven”—in enabling the atrocities of the Zionist entity, exploiting the war to fatten their profits with no ethical accountability. Companies like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Caterpillar, alongside tech giants such as Google and Amazon, all contribute directly or indirectly to the machinery of destruction, pumping money into their coffers while millions of Palestinians starve under siege. This boundless support and Western complicity reveal the real reasons behind the weak, irresponsible stances in the face of Zionist-American lawlessness across the region and the world.
Global silence and Arab-Islamic abandonment not only afflict Gaza’s people—they leave deep scars on the future of international policy. They erode the credibility of international laws and charters, reducing justice to an empty slogan. Actors within the Axis of Resistance recognize that what is happening is an attempt to break a people’s will, destroy its identity, and eliminate its dignified right to exist. Despite all this suffering, history confirms that Gaza’s people—what Australian scholar Michelle Pace called “possessing irresistible courage, faith, and kindness”—have an immense capacity to endure, adapt, and continue resisting with dignity, no matter the brutality of the aggression or depth of betrayal. In the heart of hell, the ember of eternal resilience is born.
A Tragedy Beyond Description… A Stain on Humanity’s Forehead
As the bleeding and starvation continue in Gaza, new chapters of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe emerge, written mercilessly by the Zionist aggression. The “Zikim” massacre on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, was a thunderous cry revealing boundless brutality. The number of martyrs arriving at hospitals from that massacre alone rose to 58, with 579 wounded, distributed across Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the Kuwaiti Hospital, and the National Baptist Hospital. Their only “crime” was seeking food or water, only to face treacherous fire instead of aid.
Amid these horrific massacres, the Zionist starvation machine continues to grind what remains of life. On July 31, 2025, 104 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza, but most were subject to “systematic looting under the occupation’s auspices,” described by the official media office as “engineering chaos and starvation.” It is a dual crime aimed at sabotaging aid distribution and depriving civilians of basic necessities, while daily real needs for the Strip require no fewer than 600 trucks to meet minimum survival requirements.
What is happening in Gaza is a living manifestation of international conspiracy and Arab-Islamic betrayal that demands immediate and urgent action. Borders must be fully opened, and aid—including infant formula—must be delivered in sufficient, safe quantities under independent UN supervision. The world’s silence in the face of these atrocities constitutes direct complicity in one of the worst mass crimes of the 21st century. History will only erase this black page by achieving justice and vindicating the steadfast people of Gaza.