Gaza City — The world’s leading food security authority has declared famine in Gaza. More than a million people, nearly one quarter of the enclave’s population, are facing catastrophic hunger. Palestinian children arrive at hospitals skeletal, with ribs protruding and skin clinging to bone. doctors report dozens of deaths from starvation. This is not a natural disaster. It is a policy, calculated and imposed.

Amid this human devastation, another silent tragedy unfolds: the slow death of journalism itself in Gaza. reporters who once carried Palestinian voices to the world now write that they too will die, not from bombs but from hunger. AFP journalists issued a chilling appeal: “Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.”

Their warning is not simply a cry for food. It is a warning that Israel’s genocide is silencing the truth, erasing witnesses, and ensuring no eyes remain to record the suffering.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global authority on famine declarations, confirmed in August 2025 that conditions in Gaza City meet the technical definition of famine: acute food shortages, mass child malnutrition, and rising death tolls.

Israel continues to insist that it “permits aid” into Gaza. Yet humanitarian agencies and UN officials say what little aid enters is systematically blocked, destroyed, or delayed. Food convoys have been bombed. Distribution points have been shelled. aid workers themselves have been killed. Starvation has been weaponized.

Using hunger to force a population into submission is a war crime under international law. But in Gaza, it has become a central feature of Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide, a genocide conducted not only with bombs but with empty stomachs.

Journalists inside Gaza, once the last line of accountability, now find themselves victims of the very crisis they report. AFP staff wrote of their physical decline: “My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Another reporter admitted she may not survive even the short journey from her shelter to any evacuation point.

More than 150 journalists have been killed since Israel began its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza, after the

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