Published: Safar 2, 1447 AH

In Gaza, you don’t need to count the dead. To breathe is enough to smell the death that drifts from every corner of this besieged city. For more than 21 months, the Gaza Strip has endured an unprecedented Zionist assault that shows no signs of relenting.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 88 people were killed — including 12 whose bodies were recovered from the rubble — and 374 others were wounded in the past 24 hours due to ongoing Zionist bombardment.

Among the casualties were 11 Palestinians killed while seeking humanitarian aid, and over 36 others injured. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed while seeking food and supplies to 1,132, with more than 7,521 injured.

Since March 18, 2025, the Ministry has recorded 8,657 fatalities and 32,810 injuries. The cumulative toll since October 7, 2023, stands at 59,821 dead and 144,851 wounded.

Hospitals in Gaza documented six new deaths in the past 24 hours due to malnutrition and starvation, raising the total death toll from hunger-related causes to 133, including 87 children.

The Gaza Government Media Office has issued a dire warning, saying that more than 100,000 children under the age of two, including 40,000 infants, are facing imminent death due to a total absence of baby formula, nutritional supplements, and continued blockade of essential goods.

The situation in Gaza has exceeded all limits of humanity. This is not merely a humanitarian crisis — it is a continuous massacre of an entire people, being slaughtered slowly under the eyes and ears of the world. With every passing silence, another child falls, and another dream of life dies.

In the rubble-strewn alleys of Gaza’s camps, a mother carries her weak child. “He hasn’t eaten in two days,” she whispers. “All I have is water boiled with potato peels.”

Food is a luxury. Clean water, a dream. Medicine, a distant hope.

In Gaza’s streets, people wait in endless queues for bread. Silence prevails. Laughter is extinct. Children no longer play — play has become a luxury.

A young girl cries while carrying a jug of water. “It’s bitter,” she says. But it’s all there is.

The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross declared that the situation in Gaza has surpassed every legal and moral threshold. Confirming that Gaza’s children are dying from food shortages, and families are fleeing again and again, looking for a safety that no longer exists. She said, adding that every minute without a ceasefire costs more civilian lives.

Amnesty International denounced what it called an ongoing campaign of collective starvation and genocide. “Despite horrific eyewitness testimonies, the suffering in Gaza continues,” the group stated.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the situation not only as a humanitarian failure but as a moral catastrophe. “Even UN staff are starving,” he confirmed.

According to the UNRWA Commissioner-General, one in every five children in Gaza is suffering from severe malnutrition, and many are at risk of death without urgent intervention.

“The people in Gaza are neither dead nor alive — they are moving corpses,” she said. UNRWA teams are receiving children who are severely wasted and too weak to survive without immediate care.

The Commissioner added that over 100 people, mostly children, have already died of starvation, and that the crisis affects everyone, including those trying to save lives.  When caregivers themselves cannot find food, the entire humanitarian system begins to collapse.

Parents are now too hungry to care for their children. Families are falling apart, unable to cope, and their existence itself is under threat.

UNRWA currently has 6,000 aid trucks filled with food and medicine, waiting in Jordan and Egypt, blocked by the ZIonist entity from entering Gaza.

Hospitals across Gaza are overwhelmed, lacking medicine, food, electricity, and hope. Doctors no longer cry. They operate in silence, knowing that tears save no one.

In one instance, a doctor tried to save a wounded girl. The power went out. She held the child in her arms as she died.

“Does anyone hear us?” asked one grieving mother, sitting on the ruins of her home, clutching a photo of her son. “We don’t want anything from the world but to be saved. I buried him with my own hands. He hadn’t even turned three.”

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that 1,200 elderly people have died from starvation in Gaza, and thousands more are at risk. Hundreds of seniors arrive at hospitals and clinics every day, exhausted and dehydrated, searching for medical fluids.

The Monitor’s field team verified that dozens of elderly people have died in displacement tents due to famine or lack of medicine. Many are recorded as natural deaths due to the absence of any formal system to log them as victims of genocide, and families’ tendency to bury them immediately.

The Monitor documented painful testimonies of elderly people dying and others deteriorating due to starvation and denial of treatment, confirming that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels, with an almost complete collapse of basic services.

Anthony Aguilar, a retired U.S. officer, resigned from a food distribution mission in Gaza in protest against what he described as “excessive brutality” by the Zionist forces.

In an interview with the BBC, Aguilar revealed that the Zionist forces fired on unarmed civilians at aid distribution points and shelled crowds with artillery.

“I’ve never seen this level of brutality,” Aguilar said. “There was no distinction. No necessity. Just raw violence against starving people.”

In Gaza, there is no time to mourn. Children die quietly. The dead are buried without ceremony. Mothers become soldiers in the fight against hunger and fear.

This is happening in an age that calls itself the age of "freedom, democracy, and human rights."

There is no time for crying in Gaza. Children die in silence, the dead are buried without funerals, and mothers become fighters against hunger and fear.

All this barbarism and cruelty in an age that claims to uphold freedom, democracy, and human rights.