The hell in Gaza continues relentlessly. Hunger is eating up the population, relentlessly, before the eyes of the world. The international alert level is rising due to the consequences of the prolonged lack of food and humanitarian aid – the United Nations says that the Strip is experiencing “the worst hunger scenario” in the risk classification (IPC). And as the hunger epidemic spreads, other pathologies flare up that are no longer manageable under the current conditions.

According to UNICEF, 84% of all health facilities and 75% of water facilities in Gaza have been destroyed. And hope will not be coming from the skies: airdrops of aid are “notoriously ineffective and dangerous,” says MSF coordinator in the Strip Jean Guy Vataux: even more so with two million people trapped in a small patch of land, where any aid distribution from above involves enormous risks. Just a few kilometers from the places where famine rules are trucks loaded with food and medicine. This is the perverse nature of Israel's siege.

The death toll is also growing inexorably. An endless trickle of deaths, for lack of a better term. Gaza’s health authorities have confirmed over 60,000 people killed since the start of the Israeli offensive. 62 Palestinians, including 19 humanitarian workers, have been killed since dawn on Tuesday, 29........

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