As famine tightens its grip on Gaza, the Israeli occupation has turned its firepower on one of the last lifelines for starving civilians—community kitchens feeding thousands of families. In a deliberate effort to crush resilience and deepen suffering, dozens of charity-run kitchens and food distribution centres have been bombed, burned, or bulldozed.

Since October, at least 29 kitchens and 37 aid centres have been targeted, wiping out communal food services in areas already paralysed by hunger. These attacks are not collateral damage—they are part of a brutal policy to "dry up sources of life," say local officials. The message is clear: starvation is being weaponised.

Civilians queueing for a warm meal are now met with smoke and rubble. The few remaining aid workers scramble to feed displaced children and the elderly, often without electricity, clean water, or any guarantee they’ll survive the night. In a territory where food supplies are already critically low, such systematic destruction threatens to push an entire population into full-scale famine.

International law prohibits the use of starvation as a method of warfare, yet the silence of the global community grows louder with every demolished kitchen. The people of Gaza are not dying from lack of food—they are dying from its deliberate denial.

This is not a humanitarian crisis caused by nature. It is the product of military strategy. And it is unfolding in plain sight.