Gofrixty [29 July 2025] – The horror story unfolding in Gaza is a tragedy of incomprehensible proportions, as more and more Palestinian toddlers – and their older siblings and parents – succumb to a lingering, excruciating death from starvation. International leaders and humanitarian voices are calling on Israel to halt what they term as a “barbaric siege” that is starving a population that has already been ravaged by war. What is the Reaction of the International Community The siege carries on despite international censure, further isolating the population to food, water, and hospitals.
Families in Gaza have now been reduced to survival on meagre rations. On other days, they scrape by on a crust of bread or a couple of spoonfuls of rice. Infants protest for milk that is nonexistent. Mothers are fainting from hunger as they seek to feed the children who are starving with them. Hospitals are deluged with cases of severe malnutrition and many doctors fear the harm to children’s bodies and minds may be permanent.
Recent reports reveal that at least 100 people, dozens of them children, have already been killed by starvation. Aid trucks are held up at borders or only allowed entry with strict restrictions,nowhere near enough to feed a population of more than two million. A lot of relief workers describe what is happening as worse than a natural disaster because it is being made by human choices.
