For over five months, Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, putting the lives of more than 2 million Palestinians at risk.
A child is dying in Gaza every 53 seconds.
Over half a million children are now suffering from acute malnutrition.
Israel controls all land crossings, airspace, and sea access to Gaza.
Aid has been blocked or severely limited at
Israeli checkpoints since early 2024.
The UN and all major aid organisations say the famine is entirely man-made.
Amnesty International: “Israel is deliberately starving Gaza”
Human Rights Watch: “Israel is using starvation as weapon of war”
Save the Children: “Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza”
Doctors Without Borders: “Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza”
"There are no uninvolved in Gaza" -
Israeli rabbi Ronen Shaulov has called for every child in Gaza to be starved to death, saying that "not a trace can remain" of Gaza and there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians. Ronen Shaulov is popular in Israel with a large social media following.
Who controls the aid?
The UN does not control Gaza's border crossings.
Only Israel does.
Since Oct 2023, Israel has forced aid trucks to unload at the border and leave
Why doesn't the aid move inside Gaza?
Once unloaded, local trucks inside Gaza must get Israeli permits to pick up the aid.
Israel often denies or delays the permits
then asks, "Why isn't the UN picking up the aid?"
Even with permits, truck drivers risk being bombed or shot by Israeli forces.
This has happened repeatedly.
There, Israeli-backed armed gangs steal aid, beat, kidnap, or kill drivers.
Israel knows this - and still forces that route.
It's Israel controlling the borders, not Hamas. Aid is sitting in trucks because Israel is blocking it, often for weeks or months at a time. This has been confirmed by the UN, WHO, Amnesty, and multiple aid organisations on the ground.
Close to 20,000 children have already been killed, and those who survive are being slowly starved- half of all children under five are acutely malnourished. Infant formula is being blocked, along with food, medicine, and clean water. Babies are being born to starving mothers, in tents, with no incubators, no fuel, and no chance. Newborn babies have starved to death. This isn't just a humanitarian failure- it's the deliberate use of mass starvation as a weapon of war.
Blocking aid, bombing bakeries, attacking distribution points, and denying formula to babies is not "defeating Hamas." It's collective punishment and under international law, it is a war crime.
"IDE officers told Haaretz that the army does not allow the public in Israel or abroad to see footage of what takes place around the food distribution sites [...]
But lately, firing shells has just become standard practice. Every time we fire, there are casualties and deaths, and when someone asks why a shell is necessary, there's never a good answer I...]
Gaza doesn't interest anyone anymore ... It's become a place with its own set of rules. The loss of human life means nothing. It's not even an 'unfortunate incident, like they used to say."
"Earlier this week, soldiers from Division 252 opened fire at an intersection where civilians were waiting for aid trucks. A commander on the ground gave the order to fire directly at the center of the junction, resulting in the deaths of eight civilians, including teenagers [...]
When we asked why they opened fire, we were told it was an order from above and that the civilians had posed a threat to the troops. I can say with certainty that the people were not close to the forces and did not endanger them. It was pointless - they were just killed, for nothing. This thing called killing innocent people - it's been normalized."
"We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range.
But there's no danger to the forces [...]
I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons [...]
He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as
Operation Salted Fish - the name of the Israeli version of the children's game:
"Red light, green light"
“A very small part of the aid gets in here.
And even to get it, you live death a billion times every second from bombing and gunfire.
Every day, more than 50 people die here, and more than 1000 people are injured by bullets and shells while we try to get aid.
And if you do get this aid, there are armed gangs here who come and take what you managed to get by force, and it is very easy for them to shoot and beat you because these gangs are supported by Israel.
A short time ago, I was hit by a shrapnel from a shell. While I was trying to get flour, we were heavily shelled with artillery. Everyone who was there, if they were not martyred, was injured.
And the ambulances are forbidden from reaching there.”
Even if Hamas disappeared tomorrow, Israel's siege and aid blockade would still be in place unless it is lifted.
40,000 orphans
Highest number of child amputees.
98(?) children and counting dead from starvation.
No education for two years.
1 million children displaced and homeless.
49% want to die because of the conflict.