No More Excuses: Gaza Is Starving, Bombed, and Abandoned

No More Excuses: Gaza Is Starving, Bombed, and Abandoned – and the IDF Is Not Innocent

As the world looks away or hides behind carefully worded condemnations, Gaza sinks deeper into a nightmare most of us cannot fathom. Babies die not just under rubble, but now in silence—starved, dehydrated, and forgotten. With over a million displaced, barely any hospitals functional, and humanitarian aid routinely blocked or bombed, this is not a war—it is engineered annihilation.

A Famine Manufactured by Siege
The blockade of Gaza has transformed hunger into a weapon of war. With UN officials warning of “full-blown famine,” children are dying from dehydration and malnutrition, not because there’s no food in the world—but because Israel has made sure it cannot reach them. Trucks carrying flour and baby formula are turned back or attacked. Even water—a basic human right—is scarce. Wells have been bombed. Aid convoys shelled. This is intentional deprivation.

Where Is the Conscience of the World?
We are witnessing a modern-day Ghetto. Gaza is sealed, starved, and shelled. Entire families have been wiped out. And yet international leaders issue tired calls for “restraint” while continuing to arm and fund the oppressor. But as journalist Gideon Levy sharply reminds us—this is not merely the work of politicians like Netanyahu. It is the direct, continuous, and voluntary execution by the Israel Defense Forces.

No, the IDF Is Not Just 'Following Orders'
Levy’s bold piece in Haaretz demolishes the myth of a reluctant military caught in political crossfire. The IDF has not only carried out this operation—it has designed and executed it. Pilots press buttons that rain death on tents, medics, and children. Artillery crews target UN schools and hospitals. Commanders openly speak of “breaking the spirit” of Gaza.

To absolve them is not only dishonest—it is cowardly. These are not machines. These are men and women making choices every day to kill, to obey, and not to dissent.

Left-Wing Silence Is Complicity Too
Even the so-called Israeli left, figures like Yair Golan, have refused to confront the military's role. Golan’s recent retreat—where he stressed that his criticism was only of the government and not the IDF—proves that even critics cannot let go of the sacred myth of the “moral army.” But there is nothing moral about starving civilians. Nothing moral about cluster bombs and mass graves.

This Is Not Security. It Is Collective Punishment.
The Gaza Strip today is not a battlefield. It is a graveyard. The war’s stated aim—destroying Hamas—is long eclipsed by its actual outcome: the destruction of Gaza’s people. Any military that continues to bomb the hungry, the displaced, the sick—is not fighting terrorism. It is committing it.

We Must Name the Crime to Stop It
Gideon Levy is right: without the IDF, this horror would not have been possible. And those who shield the military from criticism are enabling further atrocities. The generals could stop it. The pilots could refuse. The soldiers could resist. But they do not. And so the blood of Gaza’s children stains not just the hands of politicians—but of every uniformed man and woman who presses the trigger.

End the Siege. Stop the Bombing. Hold Them Accountable.
History will ask where we stood. Let us not be the ones who whispered in comfort while Gaza screamed in agony.

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