Children of Gaza Dream of Bread… and the Zionist Enemy Strips the World of Its Humanity

Last updated Aug 4, 2025

At a time when international law is supposed to protect civilian lives and guarantee them a minimum standard of living, the Zionist enemy is intensifying the commission of one of the most horrific crimes in modern human history: death by starvation. Using the weapons of siege, closure, and collective starvation, the Israeli entity is waging a war no less lethal than bombardment and direct killing.

This is a policy of soft genocide targeting both the body and soul of the Palestinian people, exposing the hypocrisy of Western powers’ slogans about “human rights” and “human dignity.”

180 Martyrs from Starvation… Gaza Is Being Silently Killed by the World
In a scene that shakes the hearts of free people around the world, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday, August 4, 2025, the recording of five new deaths due to hunger and malnutrition, bringing the total number of famine victims to 180 martyrs—among them 93 children who died of hunger in a scene that encapsulates the magnitude and atrocity of the crime.

With all crossings completely closed, food, relief, and medical supplies barred from entry, and health facilities, warehouses, and farms destroyed, famine has become an official weapon employed by the Zionist enemy to eliminate an entire people.

The famine has coincided with an unprecedented water crisis: the United Nations warned that roughly 90% of Gaza’s population cannot access potable water amid the total collapse of water and sanitation systems. This means Palestinians are hunted by death from every angle—hunger, thirst, and epidemic.

Engineering Chaos and Starvation… A Zionist Plan to Break the People’s Will
According to the government media office in Gaza, what is happening in the Strip is not mere “humanitarian neglect,” but a deliberate, systematic policy dubbed by Palestinian experts “the engineering of chaos and starvation,” which is aimed at causing complete societal collapse through:

Full or partial closure of crossings.
Allowing only negligible amounts of aid—no more than 14% of what is needed—to enter.
Spreading security chaos to loot aid after it arrives.
Dismantling infrastructure and crippling hospitals, water, and power systems.
Weakening relief institutions and tearing apart the social fabric.

This is a policy of comprehensive extermination that seeks not only to kill Palestinians but to strip them of the means to live and persevere. Aid trucks have become death traps and humiliation ambushes—looted by occupation gangs or directly targeted by rockets, as has repeatedly happened to civilians waiting for flour to stave off their children’s hunger.

Catastrophic Numbers: Limited Trucks… Millions Starving
From July 27 to August 3, only 674 aid trucks entered the Strip, out of a minimum required 4,800 trucks to meet basic needs. That averages to no more than 84 trucks per day, while the Strip needs 600 trucks daily.

Daily Distribution (according to the government media office):

Sunday, July 27: 73 trucks
Monday, July 28: 87 trucks
Tuesday, July 29: 109 trucks
Wednesday, July 30: 112 trucks
Thursday, July 31: 104 trucks
Friday, August 1: 73 trucks
Saturday, August 2: 36 trucks
Sunday, August 3: 80 trucks

Despite the meager quantities, most of those trucks are exposed to organized looting due to the security chaos institutionalized by the occupation, turning relief into traps of humiliation and extortion for Palestinians.

The “Al-Damir for Human Rights” organization confirms that 54 Palestinians went missing after heading to aid distribution centers, with their fates still unknown—reflecting the deliberate transformation of aid into a snare for murder, abduction, and enforced disappearance.

Death at Relief Centers… The Sky Doesn’t Save from Hunger
Despite American media showmanship around “air drops,” documented reports confirm the failure of this method: aid most often lands in areas controlled by the occupation or its militias and is looted by armed groups, while children, women, and the elderly remain deprived of the most basic rights to life.

Natalia Wexler, former U.S. relief official, described “air drops” as “the most unjust way to deliver supplies,” explaining that the most vulnerable groups do not receive them, and that aerial aid is merely a way to soothe the consciences of donor countries—not to genuinely save civilians.

In contrast, Mohamed Abu Afesh, director of the Medical Relief Association in Gaza, confirmed that “air-dropped aid is stolen and does not reach its rightful recipients,” warning that distribution centers have become death traps due to the absence of emergency transport, lack of organization, and no proper medical support.

Total Health System Collapse… Epidemics Spreading in Death Camps
In the context of severe food and water shortages, Gaza’s healthcare system has collapsed, with hospital bed occupancy exceeding 300%, according to a spokesperson from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Medical staff have been forced to treat patients on the floors—a scene that encapsulates the catastrophe.

Pediatric wards are receiving three to four patients per bed amid unsanitary conditions and infestations of insects and rats in displacement sites, leading to the spread of deadly diseases—most notably Guillain-Barré syndrome, a serious neurological condition causing progressive paralysis that can result in death. Three deaths from this syndrome have been recorded, including two children under 15.

The Ministry of Health has warned of rising cases of acute flaccid paralysis linked to atypical intestinal infections caused by malnutrition and contamination, stressing that the Strip is on the brink of a widespread epidemic due to the deliberate siege that prevents the entry of vaccines and essential medicines.

Democratic Front: Starvation Is a Crime the U.S. Envoy Is Complicit In
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine described the statements of U.S. envoy Steve Betkow (transliteration) denying the existence of famine in Gaza as a moral and humanitarian crime and a false testimony to a full-fledged war crime.

The Front stated that famine and starvation go beyond food scarcity; they encompass the collapse of the health system, lack of water, medicine, fuel, and security amid repeated raids and infrastructure destruction. It added that the occupation has turned Gaza into a place of death in all its forms, accusing the U.S. administration of being a direct partner in the genocide against Palestinians.

It called for the prosecution of the Zionist enemy before the International Court of Justice and holding all those involved in the war of starvation accountable—from Netanyahu to his soldiers and officers—asserting that forced displacement and slow death are the real projects being executed by the Israeli enemy with American endorsement.

Millions of Lives at the Mercy of Hunger… and the World Watches
More than 2.4 million Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are threatened with death by starvation, disease, or being trapped under the rubble of their homes amid shameful international silence that doesn’t even rise to the level of condemnation, while international organizations stall and Washington insists on sabotaging any effective UN action.

Since October 7, 2023, the Zionist enemy has been waging a comprehensive war of extermination against the Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 60,933 martyrs and 150,027 injuries, in addition to thousands missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, with no water, electricity, medicine, or food.

Between Gaza and Sana’a… One Trench and One Battle
What our people in Gaza are enduring today is not beyond the understanding of free peoples, foremost among them the resistant Yemeni people, who continue to strike painful blows at the Zionist enemy by sea and air, reminding it that a people being starved to death in Gaza will not be left alone.

From Gaza to Yemen, and from Baghdad to Beirut, the contours of the great confrontation are being drawn, where the resistance does not differentiate between a bullet to the head or death by hunger—both are crafted by the same enemy: the Zionist-American adversary and its allies in the West and among Arabs.

And despite hunger, siege, and abandonment, Gaza will remain the qibla of the free, the engine of consciences, and the beacon of blood that is neither negotiated nor forgotten.