In Gaza, hunger is no longer a threat—it is a weapon. For over 70 consecutive days, Israel has sealed the crossings, cutting off essential aid to more than two million Palestinians trapped under relentless siege. Food is no longer scarce—it is almost entirely absent. Families scrape together one meagre meal a day, if at all. Infants cry from hunger with no milk to comfort them. In tents housing displaced people, the shelves are bare, the stoves cold, and hope fades with each passing hour.

Malnutrition is spreading rapidly. Children are visibly weaker, their growth stunted by the absence of protein and vitamins. Young adults are physically unable to perform basic tasks. Entire families grind pasta into powder in desperate attempts to simulate flour. For many, even a piece of bread is an unaffordable luxury, with prices of flour soaring beyond reach.

Gaza’s population is now facing the collapse of its most basic survival needs. According to the latest UN figures, nearly half a million people are projected to suffer catastrophic hunger by September. Food insecurity affects every single resident, with starvation already claiming the lives of sick children.

The silence of the international community is deafening. Aid convoys have been blocked—39,000 trucks of food, fuel, and medicine turned away. Bakeries have been forced to close for over 40 days, and humanitarian organisations are unable to access those most in need. What was once a humanitarian crisis is now a manufactured famine.

Palestinians in Gaza are not dying from a natural disaster. They are being starved—systematically, deliberately. As children perish from hunger, the world watches. And Gaza, already scarred by war, now buries its future in silence.