As famine deepens across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian anger is mounting over what many see as an unforgivable silence from Arab and Islamic leadership. With more than 100 civilians, most of them children, dead from starvation and thousands more facing acute malnutrition, Palestinians are left wondering why promised action never materialised.

The decisions of the Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh, hailed last November as a turning point, remain unfulfilled. The Rafah crossing stays shut, aid trucks idle in the desert heat, and Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are left to suffer behind closed borders.

Local voices are growing louder, calling this silence a betrayal of both political duty and human conscience. They see inaction as a green light for Israel to continue its punishing blockade, a policy many describe as a campaign of starvation and humiliation aimed at breaking the will of a besieged people.

Palestinians across the Strip are not only demanding food and medicine, but dignity. They are calling on Arab and Islamic governments to abandon symbolic statements and take concrete steps: open crossings, end diplomatic ties with the occupying state, and bring international pressure to bear.

As Gaza’s children continue to die from hunger, history will remember not only those who caused their suffering, but also those who watched in silence.