For the 659th consecutive day, Gaza is burning, its skies blackened by drone strikes, its streets littered with bodies, its children dying not just from bombs, but from hunger. Israel’s relentless assault continues to ravage the besieged enclave, with no ceasefire, no reprieve, and no end in sight.

On Saturday alone, 29 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach humanitarian aid, bringing the death toll from such desperate attempts to over 1,120. More than 165 others were wounded in scenes that defy human decency. Gaza’s Ministry of Health warns the real number of dead is likely far higher, with countless bodies still trapped under the rubble, out of reach, out of breath, forgotten beneath the debris.

The humanitarian disaster is reaching a terrifying threshold. Over 100,000 children under the age of two now face imminent death due to the complete absence of infant formula and nutrition. In a place where food is forbidden and milk is replaced by water, Gaza’s mothers are watching their newborns fade in their arms. “This is a slow-motion mass killing,” the Government Media Office declared, accusing Israel of enforcing starvation as state policy.

Meanwhile, Israeli bombs continue to fall on homes and tents. Drone strikes in Gaza City killed three children from the Helles family. In Khan Younis, airstrikes crushed homes and shelled neighbourhoods already emptied by displacement. A couple, Mohammad Riyad Fura and his wife, were killed when the blast from a nearby strike brought a building down on their tent.

Entire districts like al-Shuja’iya and Tel al-Hawa are again under fire, while artillery and tanks pound anything left standing. Food, shelter, and medicine are no longer scarce, they are gone. Gaza is not enduring a natural disaster; it is surviving a campaign of calculated devastation, carried out with impunity and endorsed by silence.

As the death toll surpasses 203,000, Gaza cries out not only for aid, but for justice. For the world to finally see that this is not a war. It is erasure. And every passing hour without intervention is a choice, a choice to let Gaza bleed.