The Gaza Strip is being strangled into submission. As the Israeli blockade stretches into its third month, calls for urgent humanitarian access are growing increasingly desperate. Abu Ramadan, a prominent Palestinian figure, denounced the siege as a calculated effort to break civilian life. He demanded the immediate reopening of crossings and the creation of safe, permanent corridors to allow the flow of aid. Without them, he warned, Palestinians are being left to starve, displaced, and defenceless.

Ramadan also condemned attempts to replace international humanitarian agencies with private companies, accusing such moves of turning aid into a tool of coercion. “These actions do not relieve suffering,” he said. “They legitimise the politics of death and forced displacement.”

Kazem Abu Khalaf, spokesperson for UNICEF in the Palestinian territories, revealed that Gaza, which required more than 600 aid trucks per day before the war, is now receiving fewer than ten. “This isn’t aid—it’s a smokescreen. The quantities are absurd. The goal is not to help Palestinians survive—it’s to quiet global criticism.”

He emphasised that aid access is being used as a public relations tool, not a humanitarian solution. With dozens of children confirmed dead from malnutrition, the extent of the catastrophe is undeniable. He warned that the current flow of aid is far from sufficient, and the blockade is deliberately fuelling hunger and despair.

Regarding foreign-led initiatives, Abu Khalaf underscored that the United Nations must be allowed to deliver aid through its established frameworks without interference or political conditions. “Undermining the UN’s role only wastes time and risks lives,” he said. “We have the capacity to deliver relief—what’s missing is access and the political will to allow it.”

For nearly 80 days, Gaza has been sealed off from life-saving supplies as the military onslaught intensifies. Civilians are now trapped between airstrikes and hunger. In Gaza, children are not dying from accidents of war—they are dying because the world has chosen not to save them.