In Gaza, elderly Palestinians are dying not from illness alone, but from hunger, neglect, and a brutal policy of enforced deprivation. According to a recent report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, at least 14 elderly civilians perished in just one week—victims of starvation and a complete denial of medical care.

Hospitals, once places of healing, have become places where the sick are left to die. With fuel exhausted, medical teams decimated, and vital supplies blocked, Gaza’s healthcare system is no longer functioning. The report paints a chilling picture: medical centres reduced to “final stops,” where the most vulnerable are abandoned in their final hours.

The siege is not a side effect of war—it is the method. The blockade, the Monitor argues, is a tool of systematic violence, used to break the population through hunger and disease. The deliberate denial of food and medical access, it warns, amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity.

To make matters worse, with civil infrastructure in ruins and hospital records destroyed, many of these deaths are going unrecognised—disguised as natural, when in fact they are the direct result of a manufactured crisis.

The group rejected the proposed Israeli-American aid mechanism, calling it a continuation of the same failed policies that have strangled Gaza for years. It instead demanded urgent international action—sanctions, arms embargoes, and full accountability for those complicit in the siege.

In the silence surrounding Gaza’s elderly victims, one thing is clear: these are not isolated tragedies. They are part of a larger, unrelenting assault on life itself.