Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C.
Author: Kamran Faqir
Article Date Published: 22 July 2025 at 12:02 GMT
Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | US-Israel At War
Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
Gaza Strip – What is unfolding in Gaza is not a famine born of climate or accident, but a deliberate, systematic policy of extermination by starvation. With over 100,000 Palestinians killed, nearly 377,000 injured, and food access reduced to near zero for much of the population, analysts, human rights organisations, and even UN officials now openly accuse Israel of using hunger as a weapon of war and a method of genocide.
Despite mounting global outrage and multiple international legal rulings demanding the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid, Israeli forces continue to block convoys, bomb food warehouses, and open fire on starving civilians. The result is a man-made famine of catastrophic proportions that experts say could eclipse any hunger crisis seen this century.
“This Is Engineered Starvation, And The World Is Complicit”
“This is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is a deliberate act of mass atrocity,” said Dr. Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Palestinian public health expert coordinating relief efforts from Rafah. “Israel has methodically bombed Gaza’s food infrastructure, denied access to humanitarian corridors, and now shoots at children lined up for flour. This is engineered starvation, and the world is complicit.”
Reports from the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNRWA confirm that Israeli snipers and tanks have repeatedly fired on Palestinians waiting for food aid in northern and central Gaza. WFP emergency coordinator Ross Smith said the situation had reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation.”
“A third of Gaza’s population is going days without any food. One in four now lives in famine-like conditions,” Smith told reporters. “People are dying not just from hunger, but because they are being killed while trying to find food.”
These accounts are echoed by journalists and humanitarian workers on the ground. In a recent dispatch published by Al Jazeera, a local aid volunteer described the scene at a distribution point near Jabalia refugee camp:
“Hundreds of people were lined up for flour and canned goods. A tank fired two shells without warning. Shrapnel tore through children and elderly people. It was carnage. We pulled at least 12 bodies out from the rubble.”
Doctors Fainting, Infants Starving:
Medical facilities in Gaza are overwhelmed, not by the usual crush of war injuries alone, but by famine-induced illnesses, dehydration, and emaciated infants too weak to cry.
Dr. Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon volunteering at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, painted a grim picture:
“Staff here work 24-hour shifts. There is only one basic meal a day, lentils or rice with a few pieces of corn. Nurses cut pita bread into quarters to feed four children. People come to work without eating. Some faint while treating patients.”
The Gaza Medical Relief Society reports that 60,000 pregnant women are malnourished, and thousands of children suffer from wasting and stunting, signs of prolonged starvation. On Tuesday alone, two children and a baby died from hunger, according to local hospital sources.
“These deaths are not isolated incidents,” said Dr. Huda Ahmed, a paediatrician in Rafah. “They are part of a pattern: a siege designed to kill civilians slowly.”
Weaponising Hunger: Legal And Moral Outrage.
International legal experts increasingly describe Israel’s actions as genocide by starvation, a charge supported by precedents in international law. In March 2024, the International Court of Justice issued a provisional ruling ordering Israel to allow unfettered aid into Gaza, a directive Israel has blatantly disregarded.
Balkees Jarrah, Associate Director at Human Rights Watch, stated:
“Under the Genocide Convention, the deliberate infliction of conditions calculated to destroy a population, including denial of food, constitutes genocidal intent. Israel’s starvation campaign meets that threshold.”
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food echoed this assessment, telling Al Jazeera:
“We have not seen such starvation in modern history. This is not famine, it is starvation policy.”
Even Western politicians, typically aligned with Israel, are breaking ranks. In a rare moment of candour, UK Foreign Secretary said:
“What is happening in Gaza is shocking and disgusting. When you see children reaching out for food and being shot dead, it is natural to condemn it. We will continue to pressure the Israeli government to listen to the 83% of its own population demanding an end to the war.”
Religious Leaders And Humanitarian Agencies Speak Out:
On Tuesday, Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the most senior Catholic official in the Holy Land, called the situation “morally unacceptable and unjustified” following a visit to Gaza.
“We saw men standing in the sun for hours, hoping for a single meal,” he said. “It is simply inhuman.”
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that even humanitarian workers are at breaking point:
“Caretakers, including our colleagues, are fainting from hunger and exhaustion. Doctors, nurses, journalists, none of them are spared.”
Meanwhile, Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and Save the Children have all reported deliberate Israeli attacks on aid convoys, hospitals, and food warehouses.
A Siege With No End In Sight:
The pattern is unmistakable: bomb the bakeries, destroy water infrastructure, block fuel, then target the lines of desperate people at the few remaining aid stations. Over the past month, Israeli troops have pushed deeper into Deir el-Balah, further choking humanitarian corridors and forcibly displacing tens of thousands more.
Yara al-Ajrami, a displaced mother in Rafah, told Middle East Eye:
“Every day we walk to the distribution centre in the heat. Some days there is nothing. Yesterday, my nephew was shot in the leg while waiting for food. They don’t want us to eat, they want us to die.”
Silence And Complicity In The West:
Despite growing evidence of mass atrocity crimes, the U.S. and Germany continue to provide arms and diplomatic cover to Israel. American-made munitions have been documented in recent attacks on aid convoys and civilian shelters.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, recently stated:
“Western complicity in Israel’s crimes is no longer hidden. It is active and deliberate. The siege and starvation of Gaza are being funded and politically protected by the U.S. and EU powers.”
Even now, Israeli officials publicly justify the siege. In April, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared:
“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel for Gaza. We are fighting human animals.”
Conclusion: A Famine That Has Been Engineered, Not Endured.
What is unfolding in Gaza is not a “conflict” or merely a humanitarian tragedy; it is a campaign of annihilation, executed through bombs, bullets, and starvation. This is a meticulously engineered famine, carried out with military precision and bureaucratic cruelty. It is not the unintended consequence of war but the result of deliberate, strategic decisions by a state that has weaponised starvation to achieve political and territorial ends. With over half a million people starving and entire communities destroyed, this is the slow extermination of a population, designed to break Palestinian society physically, emotionally, and demographically, all in front of a watching, largely complicit world. The call for international accountability is no longer optional; it is urgent.
Legal experts, humanitarians, and survivors are demanding:
- Immediate ceasefire and lifting of the siege
- Unhindered humanitarian access
- Prosecution of Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Sanctions on Israel and military embargoes by Western states
Until these steps are taken, every child who starves to death, every mother who faints from hunger, every aid worker killed by a drone strike is a testament to the failure, or refusal, of the international community to act.
“We are not dying because of war,” said Fatima Al-Sawarka, a survivor in northern Gaza. “We are dying because the world has decided to let us starve.”
The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable. Israeli officials have openly admitted to cutting off food, water, and fuel. Entire agricultural zones have been bulldozed. Fishing boats destroyed. Bakeries bombed. Convoys blocked. And now, food lines are being shelled, and starving children are being shot dead in plain sight. All while international legal rulings, humanitarian pleas, and UN mandates are blatantly ignored.
The intent is not only visible, it has been spoken aloud. When Israeli leaders declare that “no food, no fuel, no mercy” will be allowed for Gaza, when civilians are called “human animals,” and when military operations continue to target humanitarian infrastructure and personnel, we are no longer in the territory of “security operations.” We are in the realm of state-sanctioned atrocity.
And yet, the most damning part of this genocide-by-starvation is not simply Israel’s conduct, but the silence and complicity of the so-called democratic world. Western governments, most notably the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, continue to supply arms, provide diplomatic cover, and refuse to impose meaningful consequences. They condemn the horror with one hand while arming it with the other.
This famine is not a natural disaster. It is not caused by weather, logistics, or chaos. It is the result of human choices made by military generals, political leaders, and complicit allies, all of whom must be held accountable under international law.
The people of Gaza are not dying from lack of food. They are dying from the political decision to deny them food. That is not war. That is not self-defence. That is a war crime, a crime against humanity, and genocide.
If international institutions, civil society, and states do not act, not just with words, but with consequences, then the precedent will be clear: starvation can be used as a legitimate weapon of war.
In Gaza, history is not just repeating itself. It is being rewritten in real-time, with every emaciated body, every silenced child, and every looted aid truck. This is the story of a siege that could have been stopped, and wasn’t.
And the question for the world is no longer “what is happening in Gaza?” The evidence is before us. The question now is:
“How many more must starve, suffer, or die, before we stop pretending this isn’t genocide?”
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