Starvation, Shelling, and Silence: Gaza Suffocates Under Israel’s Ongoing War

As Gaza enters yet another day of death and devastation, Israeli forces continue their brutal onslaught with indiscriminate bombardment from air and land. Since early Thursday morning, dozens more Palestinians have been killed, including children and the elderly, while residential homes, schools, and shelters lie in ruins. The siege has tightened further, with aid still denied, pushing a starving population closer to catastrophe.

Palestinian journalists have called on global media to break their silence and confront the reality of this slow, systematic extermination. Their urgent appeal highlights the deliberate use of hunger as a weapon, a method of war that targets civilians not only with missiles, but by denying them food, water, and medicine. Despite public claims by Israeli authorities that humanitarian aid is being permitted, the truth on the ground tells a very different story.

The numbers are staggering and rising fast: over 58,000 Palestinians killed since the war began, nearly 140,000 injured, and thousands more buried beneath the rubble or left to die from starvation and disease. Since the collapse of the March truce, the toll has grown dramatically, with over 7,700 Palestinians killed in just four months. Behind every statistic is a family shattered, a life erased, a future destroyed.

Israeli warplanes bombed more than five homes in Jabalia on Thursday alone, while drones fired on residents in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Even churches were not spared, shelling injured six Christian civilians near the Latin Patriarchate Church in the Old City, with two critically wounded. Entire neighbourhoods have been levelled. Civil defence teams continue to recover bodies, many of them children, from beneath the ruins of homes, schools, and marketplaces.

For Gaza’s exhausted and besieged population, the war is not only being fought with missiles but with starvation, isolation, and international indifference. The world watches as a genocide unfolds in slow motion, and Palestinians are left to bury their dead under the silence of broken promises and abandoned values.

Source : Safa News