I write as a human being shaken by the story of Hoda Abu al-Naja, the Gazan child whose fragile body succumbed to extreme hunger. No amount of political language can soften what this is: a child starved in full view of the world.
Hoda did not die from a natural disaster. She died because the Israeli government has imposed policies that restrict food, medicine, and humanitarian access to Gaza, while simultaneously banning or expelling dozens of international aid charities whose sole mission is to keep civilians alive. When charities are barred and borders sealed, hunger is no accident—it is a foreseeable outcome.
Children do not choose wars. They do not draft policies or control checkpoints. Yet they are paying the highest price. To watch a child waste away because gluten-free food, protein, or medical care cannot enter Gaza is to witness suffering engineered by human decisions.
I ask readers, and those in power, to confront this reality honestly. If governments deliberately block aid and ban life-saving organizations, they bear responsibility for the consequences. Silence in the face of such suffering is not neutrality—it is complicity.
Hoda’s name should haunt us. And it should demand change.
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