Starving Gaza Is a Crime, Not a Strategy 7/29/2025

                                       Starving Gaza Is a Crime, Not a Strategy

The Guest Essay “The World Is Letting Gaza Starve” exposes the deliberate, systematic starvation of over 2 million people trapped in Gaza. The authors—who include aid workers and public health experts—paint a devastating picture: mothers boiling grass to feed children, newborns dying from dehydration, and families forced to drink sewage-contaminated water. This is not the result of a natural disaster. It is the calculated outcome of Israel’s total blockade on food, water, fuel, and medicine—while receiving U.S. support and weaponry.
The authors rightly assert that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. That is a war crime under international law. Yet global powers, particularly the United States, continue to defend Israel’s actions as “self-defense,” even as children waste away before our eyes.
This is not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a moral collapse. Aid trucks sit idle, bombed or blocked. UN workers are killed. And still, there is no outcry loud enough to end this madness.
Every day of silence is complicity. If we do not act now—by demanding an immediate cease-fire, lifting the siege, and ensuring unfettered humanitarian access—we are endorsing collective punishment on a mass scale.
Gaza’s children are not terrorists. They are victims of geopolitical cruelty, and their suffering should shame the world. History will judge us not only for what we did—but what we allowed to happen.