✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
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There is a cruelty so sharp, so systematic, that even language itself recoils. What’s happening in Gaza is not a “crisis.” It is not “collateral damage.” It is not even merely a “failure of policy.”
It is deliberate.
It is calculated.
And it is criminal.
According to a damning new report by The New York Times (August 1, 2025), hunger in Gaza has not only deepened—it has turned into an executioner. Not metaphorically, but quite literally. Starvation has been weaponized.
Let’s stop pretending this is about “security.” Let’s stop rehearsing the stale script of Hamas smuggling aid, a narrative Israel repeats with zero evidence. The truth, as laid bare by Israel’s own data, is that less food is entering Gaza now than at almost any point during the war—a war that has already displaced, starved, and killed tens of thousands.
This isn’t war.
This is siege warfare masked as humanitarian coordination.
And it is playing out in broad daylight, livestreamed on social media and satellites, as the so-called civilized world looks away.
A Humanitarian System Designed to Fail
In May, Israel replaced the UN-coordinated aid system with one run by the Orwellian-sounding Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (G.H.F.). "Humanitarian," except it has four aid sites for a population of over 2 million. Some days, only one site is open. None are in northern Gaza.
Let that sink in. Families have to walk for hours through active war zones to get a box of food, dodging drones, tanks, and sniper fire—not as combatants, but as civilians, many of them elderly, children, or already malnourished.
Over 600 people have been killed trying to reach these sites, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Israel calls them "isolated incidents."
Translation: Acceptable deaths.
G.H.F. denies responsibility for the chaos surrounding its fenced, barbed-wire food dumps. But videos tell the story they won’t: panic, stampedes, tear gas, American security contractors hurling grenades into trapped lines of starving people. In one instance, 20 people died in a stampede, and the excuse? Hamas provocateurs.
Of course. Always Hamas.
Aid as Bait, Starvation as Strategy
What do you call a system that announces food distributions 30 minutes before opening and closes within 15 minutes?
A trap.
People gather in the dead of night, not knowing when—or if—aid will arrive. The routes are unclear. The military lines are arbitrary. And the moment the crowd "disobeys" an invisible boundary, bullets fly.
This isn’t humanitarian assistance. This is a snare. A hunger game, where Gazans are forced to race, scramble, and bleed for the basic right to eat. If they don’t get killed in the line, they may die at home from malnutrition.
Hospitals report severe child starvation. One in three people isn’t eating for days. Aid trucks are blocked or delayed. And still, Israel blames the UN for not doing enough.
How does the world respond?
With airdrops.
Boxes falling from the sky like divine mercy, except some land in the sea, others in Israel, and a few on people’s heads—killing them. It’s a PR stunt in parachutes. Not a solution.
Even the UK admitted:
“Only trucks can deliver at the scale needed.”
And yet, those trucks sit idle, locked behind Israeli gates.
Starving a Population Is Not a Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Let us be clear: Starvation is a war crime.
Under Article 54 of the Geneva Conventions, intentionally depriving civilians of food as a method of warfare is forbidden. It’s not debatable. It’s not conditional.
Yet, for months, this is exactly what has been done in Gaza—with international complicity.
The United States continues to arm the siege. European leaders deliver speeches about restraint, then sell surveillance drones. Arab regimes offer statements of “deep concern” while denying refugees and normalizing ties with the very government starving Palestinians.
The UN? Trapped. Gutted. Undermined.
What we are witnessing is the normalization of atrocity—where children are buried by famine, and the world debates the rules of engagement.
The Price of Bread Is the Price of Silence
Today, in Gaza, a kilo of tomatoes is $30. A kilo of sugar: $100.
But the true cost is higher.
It’s the price of the international community’s silence. The price of every "balanced" media headline. The cost of every vetoed UN resolution. The blood price of “neutrality.”
A mother selling her wedding ring to buy powdered milk. A father kissing a soldier’s boot for a bag of flour. A child with distended belly asking for water that isn’t poisoned.
This isn’t a crisis of aid. This is a crisis of conscience.
So What Now?
Don’t say you didn’t know.
Don’t say it’s too complicated.
Don’t say we must hear both sides.
There is only one side here: the side of the starving, the displaced, the besieged.
Call it what it is:
A blockade-engineered famine.
A humanitarian catastrophe by design.
A genocide enforced by hunger.
Let every bite denied, every bullet fired at a food line, every child’s grave dug in dry earth bear witness to this moral collapse.
And let us never again confuse silence with peace.
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