The most haunting image of war is often not its violence but its silence ~ the silence of a child’s hollow eyes, a mother’s outstretched hand, or a truck loaded with food that never arrives. Gaza, today, is not just a war zone. It is the stage of a humanitarian collapse where the denial of suffering is as deafening as the suffering itself. US President Donald Trump’s remark that children in Gaza are experiencing “real starvation stuff” pierced through months of evasive political language. While his words are rarely known for nuance, they have a rawness that resonates.

In this case, that rawness acts as a mirror reflecting the uncomfortable truth: people are starving, visibly and undeniably. And this truth is no longer confined to the domain of UN reports or human rights bulletins ~ it is visible in........

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