In Gaza, where famine and fear now walk hand in hand, Palestinians are not only starving, they are being hunted. The Director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, Amjad Shawa, has accused Israeli forces of intentionally targeting civilians gathering for humanitarian aid. These attacks, he warns, reflect more than just indifference, they reveal a calculated policy of destruction.

Speaking from Gaza, Shawa condemned the role of international actors enabling the crisis, including a US private security firm involved in aid distribution. But aid itself has become a mirage. With borders closed and convoys blocked, Gaza’s lifelines have all but collapsed. The few remaining charity kitchens are overwhelmed, offering barely a fraction of what is needed to feed 2.5 million people. Most bakeries have been shut since March. Malnutrition is now widespread, particularly among children.

Worse still, Gaza’s fragile social fabric is being torn apart. The destruction of police forces has created a vacuum filled by fear and lawlessness. Armed gangs roam freely while more than 800,000 people, displaced yet again, are crammed into ever-shrinking zones, less than 18% of the territory remains somewhat habitable. Most hospitals have shut down. Clean water is scarce. Hope, rarer still.

International NGOs are paralysed. Supplies are vanishing. Donations are dwindling. And with each day, now the 613th since the onslaught began, the silence from Arab and Western leaders grows more deafening. Gaza is starving. Gaza is bleeding. And the world, it seems, has chosen to look away.