It's been more than two months since Israel hermetically sealed all of Gaza’s borders and banned the entry of all food, water and other lifesaving aid, once again weaponizing hunger against the entire population of 2 million people, half of whom are children.

Each morning, as the sun rises over the dust and debris, my focus narrows to one thing: feeding the hundreds who rely on the lifeline we call our soup kitchen in northern Gaza, with what meager supplies I manage to find that day, if any at all. Meats, fruits and vegetables are a distant memory. Finding a can of beans feels like a small victory. The smell of woodsmoke has become the only comfort in our shattered northern Gaza neighborhood, once teeming with the joyful banter of schoolchildren.

Unwilling to honor the terms it had agreed to months prior, Israel broke the ceasefire agreement, with the approval of the Trump administration, soon after reimposing a total siege on Gaza on March 2.

Humanitarian agencies now warn that starvation across Gaza has reached a breaking point. As the United Nations reports, "Since January, about 10,000 cases of acute malnutrition among children have been........

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