Hunger is Killing Gaza… A Slow Genocide Under a Shameful International Silence
In an age where values are overturned, justice is stripped of its meaning, and the principles of humanity are trampled underfoot, Gaza today stands at the center of a dark chapter in modern genocide. It is not bullets and bombs alone that are annihilating its people, but also systematic starvation, thirst, and deprivation — a calculated Zionist plan aimed at breaking the will of an entire people and turning daily life into a relentless battle for survival.
Since October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to an all-out war of extermination, surpassing in its brutality every norm of international law, reviving the memory of the worst siege crimes in history. Yet what is happening today goes even further — hunger is no longer a mere byproduct of war; it has become a central weapon of it.
A Deliberate Starvation Crime… Children Dying in Silence
In one of the most horrific manifestations of genocide, the Director-General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, revealed that 500 infants are currently receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition in hospitals that are barely functioning. These newborns — who have known nothing of life but their mothers’ embrace — now face slow death without medicine, without milk, and without even the electricity needed to power their incubators.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 227 people have died solely from hunger, including 103 children, underscoring that the siege has left childhood no path but death.
These figures are not cold statistics; they are the cries of small souls deliberately extinguished while the world watches, paralyzed.
1,750 Martyred at the Gate of Waiting
It was not hunger alone that killed them, but deadly waiting as well. 1,750 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid — whether at closed crossings or while desperately searching for scraps of food among the ruins.
While Gaza needs over 500 aid trucks daily to meet its most basic needs, only 14% of that amount has been allowed in since last March, amid a total blockade of crossings by the enemy and an international failure to enforce even a so-called “humanitarian corridor.”
Childhood on the Edge of Death
The spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Dr. Khalil Al-Dakran, warned that over 500,000 children under the age of five are at risk of death from hunger or disease due to severe shortages of food and medicine. Starvation has led to widespread cases of wasting, vitamin deficiencies, and weakened immunity — turning a common cold or a minor wound into a life-threatening danger.
This is not a passing food crisis, but a slow-motion mass execution — stripping children of their right to life and exposing the ugliest face of the Zionist enemy, which targets future generations before the present.
The Strip on the Brink of Total Famine
EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič warned that Gaza is on the brink of full-scale famine, stressing that any large-scale Israeli assault would be a humanitarian catastrophe before it is a military one.
She pointed out that airdropping aid does not come close to meeting the minimum food security needs, and that the only real solution is to open the crossings immediately and unconditionally alongside a total ceasefire.
The World Food Programme described the situation in Gaza as “unprecedented in levels of hunger and desperation,” while the UN confirmed that one-third of the population has gone days without eating, and that hundreds of trucks must enter daily to end the famine.
Kidney Failure Patients… Death Advancing by the Minute
Beyond hunger, kidney failure patients in Gaza face an even graver ordeal. With roads destroyed and fuel supplies cut off, reaching dialysis centers has become nearly impossible. Patients — including children — are transported on makeshift carts through the rubble, just to receive a few hours of dialysis in hospitals without reliable electricity, water, or medical supplies.
Proper nutrition for these patients is rare or nonexistent, causing their conditions to deteriorate rapidly. Some mothers resort to cooking harmful canned food for their sick children — if available — or simply put them to bed hungry, crushed by helplessness and despair.
The Siege… A Declared War Crime
Since March, the Zionist enemy has completely sealed all crossings into Gaza — an act that, under international law, constitutes a war crime by using starvation as a collective weapon. While thousands of aid trucks pile up on the other side of the border, the Strip remains under the guillotine of slow death.
What is happening in Gaza is not just a tragedy — it is a global moral disgrace, exposing the complicity and silence of international systems in the face of a fully executed crime. This is a genocide broadcast live to the world, without deterrence or accountability, while the enemy carries on its crimes with unceasing US and Western support.
Gaza Needs Action, Not Sympathy
Gaza does not need statements of condemnation or empty expressions of solidarity — it needs immediate action and the prosecution of those who wield hunger and medicine as weapons against civilians.
History will record that the world was present, watching the extermination of two million people, and allowed them to die of hunger in the 21st century.
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