You’ve seen the horrors. Or maybe you looked away, switched the channel.

Gaza is being bombed, starved, and dismantled before the world’s eyes, and 2.3 million people are being pushed to the brink.

It’s harrowing to watch the destruction of a people - and to live with hunger, no medicine, no electricity, and the constant threat of bombing.

If they survive, how will they ever recover?

Israel has been blocking humanitarian aid. The food in Gaza has run out - the average Gazan eats one meal every two or three days. This is engineered deprivation.

A 45km line of food trucks waits at the border, a shocking image of global moral collapse.

Condemnation is mounting.

Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF, the world’s most trusted humanitarian voices, are documenting mass malnutrition and death and are screaming from the rooftops to let aid in.

Peter Power of UNICEF Ireland told RTÉ last week: “What is happening now in Gaza is nothing short of barbaric and inhumane: there can be no justification for the withholding of food and water from starving children… This is not like a conventional famine due to drought or environmental conditions: The food is right there, kilometres away. But it’s being blockaded from getting in.”

At least 66,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition. Nine thousand required hospital treatment. And still, the siege continues.

But condemnation of Israel’s actions,........

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