Gaza is starving, and the world is watching in silence. As the siege drags into its 659th day, one-third of the population now goes entire days without food. Mothers are feeding their babies water instead of milk. The United Nations World Food Programme has warned of “unprecedented levels of desperation,” but the trucks remain stalled, the borders remain shut, and the killing continues.

What is unfolding is not a natural famine, it is man-made, calculated, and enforced. Israel’s ongoing blockade, backed by Western support, has crippled every lifeline. There is no formula for infants, no nutritional supplements for children, and almost no fuel or medicine for Gaza’s shattered hospitals. At least 90,000 women and children urgently require treatment for severe malnutrition, while the territory’s health system lies in ruins, with no MRI or CT scanners left functioning.

The death toll continues to rise, not only from airstrikes and artillery but from hunger. The Ministry of Health reports that 122 people have died of starvation so far, including 83 children. More than 1,000 others have been killed while simply trying to reach humanitarian aid, many gunned down in cold blood. Over 203,000 have been killed or wounded since October 2023. Most of them are women and children.

This is not a conflict. This is a war against life itself. Gaza has become a place where babies die from hunger before their first words, where displaced families eat grass to survive, and where starvation is wielded as a weapon. The international community’s failure to stop it is no longer just complicity, it is participation.