Gaza Between the Jaws of Hunger… and Its Children on the Brink of Annihilation

In Gaza, children do not depart to death suddenly; they are driven toward it in a slow, agonizing march—bodies wasting away while still alive, stomachs empty, skin clinging to bone, hollow eyes fixed on the sky as if asking: “Is there a Lord above who hears us? Or has the world shut the doors of mercy in our faces?”

Here, on a besieged strip of land, the ugliest forms of masked genocide are practiced. The weapon is not only bombs, but a missing loaf of bread, a can of milk withheld, and a mother trapped between her child’s cries and the helplessness of her hands.

A bloodless death… but it breaks the heart
In just 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported five new deaths from hunger, including a child, raising the toll of famine deaths to 222 people, among them 101 children.

They were not killed by shells; they faded out like candles in the dark.

Their frail bodies cry out to the world: You are heartless… honorless… inhuman.

In Gaza, even mothers’ tears have dried
UNICEF says: “Amid hunger and displacement, a mother’s milk has become the last hope for infants.” But how can she breastfeed when she herself has not tasted food in days?

With every infant’s cry there is a stifled cry from a mother, and with every empty embrace, a life cut short before it could bloom.

Airdropped aid… a flimsy humanitarian theater
The Euro-Med Monitor exposed the scandal: over 16 days, only 1,218 parcels were airdropped, while Gaza needs 9,600 truckloads. What arrived amounts to just 0.4% of actual need.

At the current pace, Gaza would need 246 days to receive enough for a single day. This is not rescue—it is the management of death, so it does not happen all at once, but in stages, at a pace that soothes the world’s counterfeit conscience.

Truth is bombed as bread is bombed
When the Zionist enemy targeted the journalists’ tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital, it did not only kill Al Jazeera reporters Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqa and their colleagues; it also assassinated the Palestinian narrative, leaving the world a single version: “The executioner is the victim… and the victim merely a number.”

UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan said it plainly: “The Israeli enemy is a killer who starves civilians and fears the truth.”

But the question is: who is listening? And who dares to answer?

The children of Gaza… faces of hunger, death, and oblivion
Since October 7, Gaza has been under fire and siege, burying its children beneath the rubble, fighting a battle for survival on behalf of a silent nation.

209,000 killed and wounded—most of them children and women—and 9,000 missing. 900,000 children face hunger, and 70,000 have entered severe acute malnutrition, where the body begins to consume itself.

These are not numbers… they are little graves opening every day.

Gaza calls… and the world’s conscience is deaf
This tragedy is not a passing humanitarian crisis; it is a stain of shame on humanity’s brow. Here, a human being is slaughtered for refusing to kneel, starved for refusing to bargain, killed for saying “no” to occupation.

A loaf of bread has become a banner of dignity, a can of milk a battle for existence, and silence an openly declared partner in the murder of an entire nation.

To the peoples of the Ummah, and to the free people of the world:

Whoever does not rage today will weep tomorrow over himself.

Whoever does not stand now should search for his humanity among the rubble.

There is no excuse for silence… and no honor in neutrality.