🕯️ Cold Cribs and Silent Cries How Gaza’s Babies Were Starved in Incubators While the World Watched.

"They were not soldiers. They didn’t wear flags. They only wore tiny diapers and hope. Now, their silence screams louder than missiles ever could."

🌍 A World That Watched — And Did Nothing

In a world wired with real-time video, where every cry, cough, and corpse is livestreamed, the unimaginable has become routine. Gaza’s babies—newborns, preemies, toddlers—are not dying quietly; they are being abandoned in plain sight.

Not just by bombs.
Not just by the machinery of occupation.
But by the calculated neutrality of a watching, whispering world.

These are not statistics. These were smiles, gurgles, first words.
Now, many are wrapped in shrouds of silence.

📆 Timeline of a Manufactured Infant Death Zone

🔥 October 2023

Israeli airstrikes severely damage Gaza’s energy infrastructure.
Fuel blockade begins—initially for “security reasons.”
Hospitals lose generator power; NICUs start collapsing.

“Three preemies died in one night at Al-Shifa. Their incubators went cold.”
— Gaza pediatric nurse, testimony to WHO

🍼 November–December 2023

All formula brands vanish from shelves and pharmacies.
Nasser Medical Complex runs out of infant formula entirely.

“We’re mixing rice starch and water. It’s not food—it’s delay.”
— Mother of twin infants, Rafah

❌ March 2, 2025

Israel completely blocks aid to southern Gaza following Rafah operations.
UN: "No fuel, no food, no medicine allowed."
All bakeries shut down. Baby milk, cooking oil, and water supplies exhausted.

🧊 April–May 2025

5,119 children hospitalized for acute malnutrition.
636 suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) — most are infants.
Formula remains unavailable. Parents give saltwater and animal feed mixed in cups.
Fuel remains blocked. NICUs barely operational.

“We count down to death—not birth.”
— Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra, Khan Younis NICU

🔥 June 2025 – Present

UNICEF: “Weaponized starvation is being used against Gaza’s children.”
Reports of infants dying within 48 hours due to lack of formula.
Gaza's main pediatric hospitals shut down emergency wards due to fuel collapse.

📊 By The Numbers (as of June 2025)

Category	Figures
Infants needing formula (hospitalized)	25+ critical cases (Nasser Complex alone)
Total children admitted for acute malnutrition (May)	5,119
Children with severe malnutrition (SAM)	636
Reported infant deaths due to incubator shutdowns	30+ (estimated)
Fuel deliveries in May	Zero (confirmed by UN OCHA)

💬 The Question We Must Ask

How did we reach a point where babies become bargaining chips?

How did baby formula become contraband?
How did incubators become military targets?
How did death by starvation become… negotiable?

And worse still—how did the world decide this was acceptable?

🔔 The Silent Crime of Neutrality

This is not just Israel’s messianic ultra-nationalist government at work.
This is also the cold complicity of silence — from world leaders, institutions, and even global citizens who scroll, sigh, and move on.

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.”
— George Bernard Shaw

🕊️ These Children Had Names

Not victims.
Not numbers.
Not war collateral.

They were Yara, with her curly hair.
Mahmoud, who had just said “baba.”
Lina, born in a tent, died before a name.

They were the smile and laughter of their parents' homes.
Now, their cold, pale hands are a monument to a world that refused to feel.

✍️ What You Can Do

Don’t stay silent. Share their stories. Break the algorithm of forgetfulness.
Demand accountability. Pressure your elected officials, your institutions, your platforms.
Donate strategically. Support vetted humanitarian organizations working in and around Gaza.
Refuse false neutrality. Silence isn’t peacekeeping—it’s betrayal.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

🧷 Blog by Malik Mukhtar
📍 www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com
📣 “Writing what the world dares not speak.”

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