In Gaza, hunger is no longer a looming threat—it is a brutal reality claiming lives in silence. After more than a year and a half under a devastating blockade and relentless bombardment, Gaza’s two million residents—half of them children—are trapped in a man-made famine that deepens by the hour.

The siege has shattered every aspect of life. Hospitals are overwhelmed or destroyed, displacement shelters are overflowing, and families are forced to choose between food and survival. Milk, bread, and clean water have become luxuries. Parents carry frail children in their arms, searching in vain for nutrition or treatment, only to be turned away by empty pharmacies and shuttered clinics.

International voices, including senior officials at the World Health Organization, have condemned the catastrophe. “We are complicit,” one said bluntly. Yet condemnation has not translated into action. Aid convoys remain blocked. Crossings stay shut. The starving continue to suffer.

This is not a famine born of natural disaster—it is engineered by policy, enforced through siege, and prolonged by silence. Gaza’s children are not dying in shadows; they are dying in front of the world’s eyes, and still the world refuses to act.