The last remaining bakeries in Gaza have shut their doors. Flour is no longer available. Prices have soared beyond reach. For over two months, the Israeli siege has choked the strip into submission, and now, bread—the most basic lifeline—has vanished.

Abdel Nasser Al-Ajrami, head of Gaza’s Bakery Owners Association, confirmed the total shutdown. Not even charity kitchens can feed the hungry. Children are the first to suffer: over 70,000 are hospitalised with malnutrition, and 3,500 toddlers face death by starvation. The numbers are staggering—1.1 million children endure hunger every single day, in what is rapidly becoming a state-induced famine.

While the Israeli occupation continues to deny baby formula, nutritional supplements, and humanitarian aid, the world watches in shameful silence. Gaza’s leaders have called it what it is: a genocide by starvation. A deliberate policy of extermination, masked as warfare.

The international community is being held accountable—not just for its inaction, but for enabling the slow, public starvation of an entire people. Gaza’s crossings remain closed. The siege tightens. And with every passing hour, a child goes to sleep hungry—if they survive the day at all.