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Thursday, July 24, 2025
A July 16th 2025 Letter from Presiding Episcopal Bishop Sean Rowe on Crisis in Gaza Palestine: "We join Archbishop Hosam in his call for the Israeli military to end the bombing of hospitals and the seige of Gaza: for the restoration of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza under United Nations supervision, and release all unjustly detained people and hostages..."
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Medical staff say they are struggling to function well enough to care for injured and malnourished civilians in overwhelmed hospitals
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| The scale of malnutrition in patients is putting a huge strain on an already depleted and exhausted workforce, say doctors. Photograph: Mariam Dagga/AP |
Almost a dozen medical staff across the territory have told the Guardian and the Arabic Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) of their increasingly desperate search for food and declining physical health due to hunger.
“They are in a state of extreme exhaustion. Some have fainted in the operating rooms,” said Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, who said that like the people of Gaza, staff had not received any aid or had any meals in the past 48 hours.
“Medical services will be affected because our staff will not be able to hold out any longer in the face of this famine,” he added.
Many of the doctors and medical practitioners who sent messages to the Guardian did not want to be named as they feared being targeted by the Israeli military.
“Today I have been on a 24-hour shift,” said one physician... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/23/gaza-doctors-becoming-too-weak-to-treat-patients-as-hunger-crisis-deepens[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES (or quotes) IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine, or at least fair and just laws and policies]
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn- More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’
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| A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images |
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More than 100 aid organisations warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza
More than 100 aid organisations warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation“ was spreading in Gaza, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
Israel is facing mounting international pressure over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory, where more than 2 million people face severe shortages of food and other essentials after 21 months of conflict, triggered by Hamas’s attack on Israel.
The UN said on Tuesday that Israeli forces had killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food aid since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operations in late May – in effect sidelining the existing UN-led system.
A statement with 111 signatories, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that “our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away”.
The groups called for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings and the free flow of aid through UN-led mechanisms.
Israel says humanitarian aid is being allowed into Gaza and accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian suffering, including by stealing food handouts to sell at inflated prices or shooting at those awaiting aid.
In their statement, the humanitarian organisations said that warehouses with tonnes of supplies were sitting untouched just outside the territory, and even inside, as they were blocked from accessing or delivering the goods.
The signatories said:
Palestinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and heartbreak, waiting for assistance and ceasefires, only to wake up to worsening conditions.
It is not just physical torment, but psychological. Survival is dangled like a mirage.
The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises. Humanitarians cannot operate on shifting timelines or wait for political commitments that fail to deliver access.
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A former worker of the Israeli-backed logistics group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has told Israel’s Channel 12 outlet that the group’s aid centres put the Gaza population “in danger”, Al Jazeera reports.
The US security guard said in an interview on Tuesday that the GHF system “has to be put an end to”.
He described incidents during which GHF staff pepper sprayed and threw stun grenades at Palestinians, despite them appearing to pose no threat.
He said:
While the Palestinians were finishing collecting the aid that was at the site, the American security guards began shooting at them … shooting at their feet, shooting at the earthen embankments, to make them leave.
In all my military service, I have never seen such use of force against unarmed civilians. I will not take part in it now.
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Philippe Lazzarini: "Silencing voices. As if banning international media is not enough. Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory." ... OPEN THE GATES!
Silencing voices.
As if banning international media is not enough.
Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in #Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The denial of a visa to our colleague from @ochaopt is the latest in a pattern of restrictions.
Since the beginning of the war, the Israeli authorities have increasingly denied or failed to renew visas for UN staff, including Humanitarian Coordinators, heads of UN agencies & staff of International NGOs.
In addition, legislative restrictions to intimidate Israeli Human rights organisations were adopted.
I, too, have been denied entry to Gaza since March 2024 after the @CIJ_ICJ ruling & to the West Bank including East Jerusalem since June 2024.
Visas must be granted to humanitarian staff to support the work of their Palestinian colleagues.
Coupled with the ongoing ban of international media to enter Gaza, these visa denials are deepening the spread of dis-information & increasing de-humanization of the people in #Gaza.
The world is witnessing an utter disregard for – if not outright violations of – international law; with no accountability.
@antonioguterres says failures to uphold international obligations are coming at a staggering cost — measured in lost lives and shattered communities.
People in #Gaza, including UNRWA staff, are fainting due to starvation and severe hunger.
People including children are dying from severe malnutrition.
People are being starved.
UNRWA alone has thousands of trucks in neighbouring countries waiting to enter Gaza – banned by Israeli Authorities from entering since March.
The siege must be lifted now to allow our lifesaving humanitarian aid in.
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Sunday, July 20, 2025
Free Palestine STOP the WAR MACHINE ... OPEN THE GATES... STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding Israeli checkpoints & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.
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| Sign seen in Washington DC 2025 |
OPEN THE GATES!
STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding Israeli checkpoints & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.
FYI: GHF is a totally cruel and dangerous Israeli tactic aimed to further target and destroy the people of historic Palestine and UNWRA - international law- and The United Nations.
Hitler's Nazi Holocaust and World War II killed more than 60 million people - did they all die in vain, not for freedom or the rule of fair and just laws and human decency and dignity but for land grabbing Israel so that Zionism can step up to rule planet earth and our skies with brute force, bombs, land grabs, and poisonous propaganda all aimed at gathering more funds and oil fields.
Do not trust Israel!
Saturday, July 19, 2025
"If countless photos of starving, skin-and-bone children, elderly people, HUMANS in Gaza haven’t appeal to the world, maybe a before-and-after of animals will? . This is Tom, my cat, before Israel’s genocide, and just moments ago, in the midst of its deliberate, systematic starvation campaign" Maha Hussaini
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| Maha Hussaini's cat Tom when there was still food in Gaza- before Israel's genocide |
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| Maha Hussaini's cat Tom just moments ago, in the midst of Israel's deliberate, systematic starvation campaign. |
Maha Hussaini
If countless photos of starving, skin-and-bone children, elderly people, HUMANS in Gaza haven’t appeal to the world, maybe a before-and-after of animals will?
This is Tom, my cat, before Israel’s genocide, and just moments ago, in the midst of its deliberate, systematic starvation campaign.
Since 2 March, Israel has completely sealed Gaza’s borders, blocking the entry of goods and international aid. A few weeks ago, it imposed a US-backed aid distribution mechanism with 4 designated points where Palestinians are gunned down as they approach in search of food
Almost every child in Gaza is now suffering from some form of malnutrition. We have been documenting a growing number of deaths among infants, children, and the elderly due to severe, prolonged hunger
Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril. Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them
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| Karam and Lulu al-Ghussain were their family’s designated water carriers because it seemed less dangerous than searching for food. |
by Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem
Last modified on Sat 19 Jul 2025 00.11 EDT
In Gaza, being a helpful, loving child can be a death sentence. Heba al-Ghussain’s nine-year-old son, Karam, was killed by an Israeli airstrike because he went to fetch water for the family, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lulu, was killed because she went to give Karam a hand.
The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children.
Both Lulu and Karam died instantly, torn apart by the force of the blast and so disfigured that their father prevented Heba from seeing their bodies.
“They didn’t allow me to say goodbye or even look at them one last time,” she said. “One of my brothers hugged me, trying to block the scene from me as he cried and tried to comfort me. After that, I don’t remember anything. I lost touch with reality.”
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| Lulu al-Ghussain (left) with her elder sister. |
Karam was smart, always top of his class until Israeli attacks shut down Gaza’s schools, generous and mature beyond his years. His dad, Ashraf al-Ghussain, called him “abu sharik” or “my partner”, because he seemed “like a man in spirit”.
But he was also enough of a child to be obsessed by a remote-controlled car that he begged his mother to buy. She regrets telling him they needed to save money for food. “I wish I had spent everything I had to buy it for him so he could have played with it before he died.”
Both children also dreamed of the day Israel would lift its blockade of Gaza, so they could taste chocolate, instant noodles and their mum’s best dishes. For Lulu that was the Palestinian chicken dish musakhan, for Karam, shawarma. “They had all kinds of food plans for me to prepare,” Heba said.
Israel imposed a total siege for 11 weeks starting in March that brought Gaza to the brink of famine, and the very limited food, fuel and medical supplies allowed in since May have not relieved extreme hunger.
Unprecedented malnutrition is killing children, and preventing injured people recovering, a British doctor working there said this week.
Trying to get food has been a deadly gamble for months, with more than 800 people killed since late May in near daily attacks by Israeli soldiers using weapons including tank shells and navy cannon to target desperate crowds near food distribution points.
Trying to get clean water is also a struggle... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/killing-of-young-siblings-at-gaza-water-point-shows-seeking-lifes-essentials-now-a-deadly-peril?CMP=GTUK_email[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES (or quotes) IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine, or at least fair and just laws and policies]
Urgent appeal: The catastrophic situation in Gaza, a people starving to death amid global silence... OPEN THE GATES!
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| Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel’s blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive hot meals distributed by the charity organization in Gaza City, Gaza on July 16, 2025. [Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini – Anadolu Agency] |
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While the world speaks of human rights, food security, and global peace, an entire population is left to face death by starvation, thirst, and disease without any real intervention to save them. Gaza—that small strip of land under siege for years—is now enduring the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the modern era. Hunger is no longer just a word heard in news reports; it has become a daily reality crushing thousands of families. Children, pregnant women, the sick, the elderly… all are at risk of slow death due to the suffocating blockade, severe food shortages, and astronomically inflated prices. This is not an exaggeration but a testimony from the heart of the disaster.
Real hunger: When a bite of food becomes a dream
“We are literally dying of hunger”—this phrase is not mere drama but the bitter truth lived by every resident of Gaza today. Markets are empty, prices have multiplied tenfold, and even if someone has money, there is simply nothing left to buy.
- The food crisis: A kilo of flour that once cost 5 shekels now sells for 200 shekels (approximately $65)—if it can even be found! Rice, sugar, oil, milk, medicine… all are either unavailable or sold at outrageous prices. Families are forced to reduce their meals to one per day, often relying on bread mixed with grass or scraps of food from any source.
- Children and women: The first victims: UN reports warn that 90% of Gaza’s children suffer from acute malnutrition. Pregnant and nursing women cannot find enough to feed themselves—how can they nourish their babies? Hospitals report repeated miscarriages due to starvation, and children dying from dehydration or extreme weakness.
Collapse of security: When hunger turns into crime
With food security shattered, societal security collapses. Hunger drives people to despair, and despair breeds dangerous behavior.
- Surge in theft: Theft is no longer a condemned crime but a “means of survival.” Children steal bread from one another, families loot shops after closing hours, and even humanitarian aid is stolen before reaching those in need.
- Women’s safety at risk: “As a girl, I’m afraid to walk the streets alone without a man beside me”—this testimony reflects the extent of the deterioration. Fear of physical assault or robbery has become a daily obsession, especially with gangs exploiting the chaos.
The siege and the world’s conscience; where is humanity?
The disaster in Gaza is not natural—it is man-made. The 17-year blockade, restrictions on food and medicine, the deliberate destruction of infrastructure… all are systematic policies to break the will of a people.
- Arab and world powers: A suspicious silence: While Gaza starves, the world watches. International organizations settle for issuing “concerned” reports, and Arab nations drown in their own conflicts. Even humanitarian aid is blocked or delayed under political pretexts.
- Media misrepresentation: Some media outlets portray the crisis as a “natural economic hardship,” ignoring that its root cause is the deliberate siege and blockade.
A cry for help; do not let Gaza die
This is not the time for words alone—but for action. Every passing minute brings Gaza closer to the abyss.
- Urgent demands:
- Permanently open crossings and allow unrestricted entry of food and medicine.
- Global and grassroots pressure on governments to break the siege.
- Immediate humanitarian safety nets to distribute food to the most vulnerable families.
- Hold accountable all those responsible for this suffering as war criminals.
- A message to humanity’s conscience: If the world knows how to donate to stray cats and dogs, how can it stay silent as innocent children die? How can anyone sleep while a person in Gaza perishes for lack of a loaf of bread?
Conclusion
Gaza reminds the world every day that humanity is on trial. This is not a political issue—it is a matter of conscience. History will record whether our generation witnessed genocide in silence or stood against it. Choose to be on the right side.
Gaza is being inentionally starved and tortured by Israel... It’s not a natural disaster, it’s a crime against humanity. "There are no words to describe the cruelty of hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who have been relentlessly bombed and displaced for almost 2 years now STARVING to death en masse. Almost half a million murdered by bombs, the rest being murdered by withholding bread..."
This is my testimony, you have no excuse to not break this loop to not stop this whole economy until Gaza has food! You have no excuse and we have no time. VIDEO https://x.com/Bisan_owda1/status/1946262027854319932
There is almost no media coverage on people starving in Gaza and the one thing I could find doesn’t even name ISRAEL.
Palestinians are being deliberately starved. It’s not a natural disaster, it’s a crime against humanity.
There’s never been an easier solution to mass human suffering than the starvation in Gaza. UN aid and humanitarian workers are literally sitting at the border with the supplies and expertise to help. Israel refuses.
It’s a choice, it’s deliberate, it’s GENOCIDE. OPEN THE GATES.
There are no words to describe the cruelty of hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who have been relentlessly bombed and displaced for almost 2 years now STARVING to death en masse.
Almost half a million murdered by bombs, the rest being murdered by withholding bread? Gross
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| Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due
to Israel’s blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line
to receive hot meals distributed by the charity organization in Gaza
City, Gaza on July 16, 2025. [Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini – Anadolu
Agency] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250719-urgent-appeal-the-catastrophic-situation-in-gaza-a-people-starving-to-death-amid-global-silence/ |
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