22 August 2025 – Gaza’s Official Hunger Games.

So it’s finally official. The United Nations, after months of issuing “grave concern” memos, has stamped Gaza with the world’s most chilling label: famine.

Yes, famine. In the 21st century. In a place surrounded by overflowing supermarkets in Tel Aviv, Dubai, Cairo, and Amman. In a world where global food surpluses are literally destroyed every year to protect market prices. Gaza starves not because food does not exist, but because it is being deliberately kept out.

The Numbers the World Pretends Not to See

640,000 people projected to face catastrophic hunger by September.
43,400 children at severe risk of death from malnutrition.
55,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women expected to be malnourished by mid-2026.
One in five babies born premature or underweight.
98% of cropland destroyed or inaccessible.

But don’t worry — Israel calls this “self-defense.” And the U.S. State Department calls it “Israel’s right to protect itself.” Funny how “self-defense” always looks like bombing bakeries, seizing aid trucks, and starving children.

What Starvation Does to the Human Body

For those who still think “famine” is just a fancy word for “hunger,” here is the reality Gaza is living:

First, the body eats itself. The small reserves of fat are consumed. Weight drops. Faces hollow. Children’s ribs become visible.
Next, the body turns on its own flesh. Muscles shrink, movement becomes painful, exhaustion sets in. Parents cannot lift their own children.
Then, the organs begin to collapse. The liver shrinks, the heart weakens, the immune system disappears. Even a small infection or diarrhea becomes fatal.
Finally, death arrives slowly. It is not quick, not merciful. It is a drawn-out shutting down of the body—organs starving, mind fogging, heart faltering.

This is what famine means. Not “food insecurity.” Not “Phase 5.” It means children rotting alive from the inside while the world debates ceasefire resolutions.

The Polite Vocabulary of Mass Starvation

The UN’s report reads like a manual in bureaucratic euphemism: “Phase 5, Catastrophe.” “Acute malnutrition.” “Crisis conditions.”
Translation: children are dying with empty stomachs while world leaders draft statements no one will read.

Catherine Russell of UNICEF said it plainly:

“Children with wasted bodies, too weak to cry or eat.”

Dr. Tedros of WHO admitted the obvious:

“The world has waited too long, watching tragic and unnecessary deaths mount from this man-made famine.”

Strong words. But here’s the problem: while UN officials make appeals, the same governments that fund their salaries are shipping weapons, blocking resolutions, and pretending famine is some act of God, not an act of war.

A Man-Made Disaster, A Manufactured Excuse

Let’s stop calling this a “crisis.” Crises are unpredictable. Famines from sieges are as predictable as gravity. Gaza’s famine is designed:

Bomb the fields.
Destroy the fisheries.
Starve the markets.
Block the borders.
Let UN trucks trickle in just enough to create the illusion of “aid access.”

And then, when children collapse from hunger, shrug and say: “tragic, but Hamas’ fault.”

The First Famine in the Middle East

Congratulations, world. You’ve just recorded the first officially declared famine in the Middle East. Not from drought. Not from crop failure. Not from natural disaster. But from siege and politics.

It’s a milestone in human cruelty: the first famine livestreamed, hashtagged, and debated in real-time while everyone carries on scrolling.

The Hypocrisy Olympics

Watch the statements roll in:

Western leaders: “Deeply concerned.”
UN Security Council: “Urgent calls for restraint.”
Humanitarian agencies: “Immediate access required.”

And then, silence. Because apparently famine victims don’t have lobbyists in Washington or Paris.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are told to be patient. Maybe one day food will arrive. Maybe one day medicine will arrive. Until then, keep burying your children quietly, preferably off-camera, so the civilized world doesn’t have to feel too uncomfortable over breakfast.

History’s Judgment

Make no mistake: this famine will be remembered. Not as a tragedy, but as a crime. Not as a natural disaster, but as a policy choice. Future generations will look back at 2025 and ask:

How did the world watch a manufactured famine and call it “complicated”?
How did leaders fund the siege with one hand and sign aid checks with the other?
How did we let starvation become a weapon in plain sight?

And the only answer will be this: because we chose to.

👉 Let’s stop pretending this famine is a humanitarian failure. It is a political project. It is a military tactic. It is a global disgrace.

Ceasefire. Access. Food. Medicine. Now.
Or stop pretending we are civilized at all.

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