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✍️ By Malik Mukhtar | July 25, 2025
Let us all pause and thank the New York Times.
After 21 months of bombing, blockade, and bullets, we finally have permission — no, confirmation — from America’s journal of record that yes, Gazans are, in fact, dying of starvation.
The paper even sent reporters to Haifa, Jerusalem, and London — not Gaza, of course — to deliver the news. Skeletal toddlers, lactating mothers without milk, IV drips rationed like treasure — all neatly documented, sanitized, and wrapped in diplomatic passive voice.
But fear not. The famine is not the fault of any one side. It's simply the result of “human failings,” the report says.
Ah yes, the tragedy of equal blame. A little siege here, a little looting there — and voilà! Starvation appears like a natural disaster. Like a famine tsunami. No perpetrators. Just poor little victims.
Meanwhile, Israel, the world’s most moral occupier™, is gallantly uploading videos of Hamas fighters eating grapes underground. You know — in case you were about to feel too much sympathy for a starving toddler with bones for legs.
And look! Pallets of food lying uncollected at the border!
Behold: the miracle of Israeli benevolence. They give the starving some photo ops — and if the food doesn’t arrive, clearly it’s because Gazans are too ungrateful or disorganized to pick it up while dodging drones and sniper fire.
Hospitals are now triage centers for famine. Babies who should weigh 20 pounds are weighing 8. Mothers cannot breastfeed because their bodies are shutting down. IV glucose — the last gasp of desperate medicine — is in short supply. Doctors, like the one at Nasser Hospital, are treating malnourished children while themselves starving.
But you see, this isn’t genocide.
This is “pressure.”
This is “security.”
This is “precision warfare” — where the target just happens to be toddlers, metabolism, and the digestive system itself.
The New York Times even mentions Yahia, a 4-month-old who died from hunger. He had no preexisting conditions. His only mistake was being born Palestinian.
Another baby. Another statistic. Another paragraph in a column between some Jerusalem analysis and London-based visuals.
And still, Israel says it’s Hamas' fault — because apparently, Hamas now controls gravity, metabolism, and maternal milk production.
So forgive us if we don’t clap for the “humanitarian” efforts. Forgive us if we see through the theater — where private Israeli-backed charities distribute crumbs through military gates while snipers “disperse” crowds that get too hungry for order.
No, this is not famine.
This is weaponized starvation.
This is biological warfare by bureaucracy.
This is genocide — with a calorie counter.
And yet, the world watches.
Nobel Peace Prize winners clutch their medals.
Presidents post concerned tweets.
Think tankers write about “complexities.”
And somewhere in Tel Aviv, a general watches a malnourished baby on screen and shrugs:
"Collateral."
We do not need more articles.
We need rage.
We need disruption.
We need a moral rebellion.
Because when babies are being starved —
When parents are forced to bury their children with hands too weak to dig —
When death is rationed by spoonfuls of lentils —
Silence is complicity.
If you have a soul, don’t just read. Share. Speak. Protest.
Or history will remember us not as bystanders — but accomplices.
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