In Gaza, hunger kills more silently than bombs. Since the start of Israel’s siege, 57 Palestinians—most of them children—have died of starvation, victims of a policy that deliberately cuts off food, baby formula, and essential medicine. As border crossings remain sealed for over two months, this death toll is expected to rise, turning Gaza into a graveyard of empty stomachs and silenced cries.

On Saturday morning, the latest victim was a four-month-old infant girl who died of severe malnutrition. The Government Media Office in Gaza condemned what it called Israel’s "systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war," describing the ongoing blockade as a crime of genocide executed before a complicit and silent world.

The numbers are staggering. Over 65,000 people are now suffering from acute malnutrition, flooding what’s left of Gaza’s shattered hospitals. UNICEF warns that every child under five in Gaza—some 335,000—stands at the edge of death. With the closure of Kerem Shalom, Erez, and Zikim crossings since 2 March, no aid or fuel is entering. What remains is a population of 2.4 million people, over half of them children, besieged by famine and forgotten by the world.

As Gaza’s babies die for lack of milk, and children waste away without food, the international community must confront the brutal truth: this is not a humanitarian crisis born of circumstance. It is a weaponised policy of extermination, and its victims are the youngest and most defenceless.