Image by Levi Meir Clancy.

The children of Gaza are not hungry—they are starving. They are dying slowly and visibly, not because of a natural disaster, but because Israel has deliberately blocked food and medicine from reaching them. As 2.3 million people face the horror of the Israeli engineered famine, the world watches, shakes its head—and does nothing. This is a humanitarian catastrophe being broadcast live to a complicit world.

The United Nations World Food Program has warned it has run out of food in Gaza. Hospitals have ceased to function. Parents are “boiling weeds in seawater,” feeding their children animal fodder, and grinding date pits in desperate attempts to stave off hunger. And while international institutions issue statements, the U.S. disinformation media machine and the Trump administration work to normalize Israeli crimes. Meanwhile, Israeli leaders have abandoned euphemism, openly declaring that starvation is a tool of collective punishment aimed at realizing “Trump’s vision” for Gaza.

This starvation is no accident of war; it is a deliberate, methodically employed and clearly defined under international law as a war crime. Not since Nazi Germany, have we witnessed such a sanctioned and systematic denial of survival necessities to an entire civilian population. The denial of food, water, and medicine is being carried out with precision, and without consequence.

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