Gaza Is Starving: The World Can’t Keep Looking Away
- Kauthar Bassadien
- Jul 31, 2025
- 3 min read
For nearly two years, Gaza has been under siege, but in July 2025, the word “crisis” no longer captures the depth of what is happening. This is a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in real time. Not only are buildings being destroyed, but so are bodies, families, and futures.
The headlines call it “famine” but the people call it survival.
International aid groups have confirmed what many feared to occurred to have become a reality. Gaza is on the brink of famine. In northern Gaza and Gaza City, children are wasting away. Babies cry not because they are tired, but because they are starving. According to the World Health Organization, over 60 people, including 24 children under five, died of hunger in July alone.
Food trucks? They barely trickle in. Israel’s so-called “tactical pauses” allow minimal aid during narrow hours, but the logistics are chaotic. In many cases, civilians who try to reach aid convoys are killed in the crossfire or struck by drones. How do you call that humanitarian?
On a recent afternoon, a group of desperate families gathered near a central checkpoint after hearing a rumour that flour was coming. Moments later, a drone fire rained down. Survivors described watching loved ones fall while trying to get food. One father reportedly held his 3-year-old son’s body in one hand and a bag of bread in the other.
This is not fiction. This is Gaza, July 2025!
Displacement is no longer a temporary condition; it is the new reality. More than 90% of Gaza’s population has been forcibly moved, often more than once. In the south, governance has broken down entirely. Militias, desperation, and lawlessness are replacing what was already a fragile civil structure.
Still, people resist in the only ways they can by staying alive, telling their stories, or, for the lucky few, escaping.
Global leaders say they are "concerned." A peace summit in New York this week brought diplomats from dozens of countries. Some are threatening to officially recognize Palestine unless Israel allows full aid access and ends the bombing. Meanwhile, a flotilla carrying activists and food aid was intercepted by Israel before it even neared the shore.
The strongest words came from within Israel itself. Human rights group B’Tselem declared that what is happening in Gaza “meets the criteria for genocide.” That’s a bold accusation, but one increasingly echoed by international lawyers and humanitarian agencies.
The children suffer everyday, and many people are still silent about it. What is currently happening in Gaza right now is something that one cannot be silent about.
Children suffer everyday, yet many remain silent. But what is happening in Gaza right now is not something we can afford to be silent about.
History will ask what we did when Gaza starved.
Whether we looked away or leaned in.
Whether we measured our humanity by borders or by conscience.
The children of Gaza deserve more than temporary pauses and fleeting outrage. They deserve the full force of international solidarity, justice, and sustained aid. We must demand more from our leaders, our systems, and from each other.
Change does not come from sympathy.
It comes from pressure, presence, and persistence.
And that starts with telling the truth again and again until no one can ignore it.
The people of Gaza deserve nothing less.
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