Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C.
Author: Kamran Faqir
Article Date Published: 25 July 2025 at 18:08 GMT
Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | US-Israel At War
Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
Children are dying by the hour as aid is blocked, doctors beg for food, and Israeli ministers mock the hunger crisis.
GAZA – Nine more Palestinians, including several children, died of starvation and malnutrition over a 24-hour period this week, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The total number of recorded starvation deaths in the besieged enclave has now risen to at least 122, including 83 children, in what UN officials, aid workers, and legal experts increasingly describe as a campaign of deliberate mass starvation.
The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that nearly one in three people in Gaza is now “not eating for days.” UNICEF has projected that life-saving therapeutic food for malnourished children will run out by mid-August, setting the stage for an even more catastrophic death toll.
But for many on the ground, the crisis is already beyond words.
“They come in like skeletons,” said Dr. Riham Abu Jameh, a paediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. “The mothers have no milk, the children have no food. I have lost count of how many infants died in my arms from hunger.”
Across Gaza’s decimated health infrastructure, doctors and aid workers are sounding alarms, and mourning children whose lives could have been saved by a single feeding tube or sachet of therapeutic paste.
‘Mass Starvation Is A Tactic’: UNRWA Sounds The Alarm.
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), minced no words in his latest public address.
“Today, more children died, their bodies emaciated by hunger,” he said. “This is not a natural disaster. This is deliberate. Gaza is being starved.”
Lazzarini criticised the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a politicised mechanism that bypasses UN agencies and excludes major humanitarian organisations, as a “cruel, ineffective and lethal alternative.”
“This mechanism takes more lives than it saves,” Lazzarini wrote on X. “If we fail the Palestinians in Gaza, others will be failed too.”
His call echoes warnings from over 100 humanitarian organisations, who signed a joint letter this week accusing Israel of using food deprivation as a method of warfare, a grave breach of international humanitarian law.
From Bombs To Breadlines: Israel’s Total Siege.
Israel’s total closure of Gaza’s border crossings since March 2 has paralysed aid distribution, even in areas facing UN-confirmed famine conditions. According to Oxfam, just 7% of the food needed to prevent catastrophe entered Gaza in June. The UN estimates 1.1 million Palestinians are facing catastrophic levels of hunger, the highest classification on the IPC food insecurity scale.
The Gaza Government Media Office issued a blistering statement on Thursday, calling the famine “systematic” and “engineered,” and demanding the immediate entry of 500 aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks per day, a figure in line with pre-war supply levels.
“We demand an international commission to investigate this starvation war,” said government spokesperson Salama Marouf. “We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and their European allies accountable for this historic crime.”
Eyewitnesses and residents describe a landscape of starvation and despair.
“We boil weeds to feed our children,” said Umm Samir, a mother of five in northern Gaza. “My two-year-old weighs less than six kilos. She doesn’t talk. She cries, if she has the strength.”
Far-Right Israeli Ministers Mock The Starving:
While famine tightens its grip on Gaza, Israeli officials have unleashed a torrent of incendiary rhetoric.
On Thursday, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu told Kol Barama radio:
“We are racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out… All Gaza will be Jewish.”
When pressed about reports of starvation, Eliyahu responded:
“There is no hunger in Gaza. Let the world worry about it.”
Eliyahu, who once suggested using nuclear weapons on Gaza, retains his ministerial position, despite international condemnation and a prior slap on the wrist from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted on X:
“There is no real hunger in Gaza. If they were hungry, they would return the hostages. I support starving Hamas.”
Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, has long called for cutting all humanitarian aid and expelling Palestinians from Gaza to make room for Israeli settlements. His remarks, analysts warn, are not fringe; they reflect a governing ideology of ethno-nationalist annihilation.
“We are witnessing genocidal intent articulated in public,” said Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard. “There is no ambiguity when ministers say they want Gaza ‘wiped out’ while blocking food for civilians.”
Starvation As Policy: Legal Experts Weigh In.
Under international law, the use of starvation against civilians is a war crime, codified in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Fourth Geneva Convention. Legal scholars say the evidence against Israel is overwhelming.
“This is not incidental or collateral, it’s structural,” said Dr. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine. “Israel has used starvation and siege as tools of war in Gaza for years. What we see now is the endgame of that doctrine.”
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has already issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is concurrently reviewing a genocide case against Israel filed by South Africa.
Aid Seekers Shot Dead, Bakeries Bombed:
In addition to the blockade, Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked Palestinians queuing for food. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed while attempting to access aid, according to Gaza’s health ministry and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights.
In one such incident in late June, Israeli tanks opened fire on crowds at an aid drop site in Gaza City, killing at least 37 people, including 12 children.
“We were just trying to get flour,” said Majed Abu Hasna, one of the survivors. “They shelled us like we were fighters. My brother’s head was blown off.”
Journalists attempting to document these war crimes are also being killed at staggering rates. The Gaza Media Office reports at least 232 journalists killed since the war began, many during Israeli airstrikes on known press locations.
Global Reaction: Anger, Condemnation And Inaction.
Global leaders have issued increasingly sharp condemnations:
- French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France would recognise a Palestinian state, denouncing the “intolerable suffering” in Gaza.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the situation a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.”
- Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani declared: “We can no longer accept carnage and famine.”
Yet, critics note the stark gap between rhetoric and action.
“These statements are meaningless unless they’re backed by sanctions, arms embargoes, and prosecutions,” said Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. “Israel continues to act with total impunity.”
Despite the growing humanitarian catastrophe, no Western power has suspended military aid to Israel, and the United States continues to block resolutions at the UN Security Council demanding an immediate ceasefire and unfettered humanitarian access.
A Race Against Death:
As the siege tightens and the food runs out, Gaza is hurtling toward an irreversible abyss. Doctors in Rafah report severe wasting in infants. In Jabalia, a grandmother was seen feeding her grandchild flour mixed with stagnant water. At Nasser Hospital, five children died in a single day from hunger-induced organ failure.
“This is not a crisis,” said Samah Hadid, a humanitarian adviser with ActionAid. “This is a campaign of extermination, slow, bureaucratic, and hidden behind euphemisms like ‘aid mechanism.’”
The famine in Gaza is not a failure of logistics, experts insist; it is a function of policy, rooted in impunity and designed to break the will of a besieged population.
“Starvation has become a weapon,” said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “And the world is letting it happen.”
Conclusion: A Calculated Famine, Fuelled By Fascism And Global Complicity.
What is unfolding in Gaza is not a humanitarian tragedy born of chaos; it is a calculated policy of extermination, executed through siege, starvation, and sustained bombardment. With every passing hour, more children die, their bodies skeletal, their lives erased by hunger and neglect. Over 122 Palestinians, including at least 83 children, have now starved to death, and thousands more are on the brink as food, water, medicine, and fuel are deliberately withheld by the Israeli regime.
This is not an unintended consequence. It is a deliberate act of mass starvation, recognised by international law as a heinous war crime, and increasingly, as part of a broader genocidal campaign.
Inside Israel’s far-right government, this genocidal intent is no longer hidden. It is bragged about.
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, who previously advocated for nuking Gaza, declared this week that Israel is “racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out.” He added, chillingly, “All Gaza will be Jewish.” Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a convicted racist and disciple of Jewish supremacism, denies any hunger exists in Gaza, claiming: “If they were hungry, they would return the hostages. I support starving Hamas.”
This is not military policy. It is fascist, racist, eliminationist, and genocidal. These ministers are not rogue actors; they are official policy-setters in the Netanyahu cabinet. And their words reflect the reality on the ground: starvation as strategy, dehumanisation as doctrine.
On the ground, we see mothers sobbing in desperation, clutching the limp bodies of their infants. Children cry out for food, their bellies bloated by malnutrition. Babies, too weak to lift their heads, whimper quietly, starving in their mothers’ arms. And as they suffer, those responsible, the Israeli architects of this siege, watch in satisfaction, their genocidal fantasies unfolding in real time. The cruelty is not accidental. It is intentional. It is celebrated.
Yet this atrocity is not Israel’s alone. It is global. It is enabled. It is protected.
The so-called democratic West, led by the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, continues to arm, fund, and politically shield Israel while publicly wringing its hands. They have blocked ceasefire resolutions, suspended UN aid, and actively sabotaged humanitarian relief. Their leaders issue empty statements about the “humanitarian crisis,” even as they supply the bombs and bullets that created it.
The lies and hypocrisy of Western governments are now beyond belief. They claim to uphold international law while financing its systematic destruction. They speak of “human rights” while propping up an apartheid regime committing genocide in broad daylight.
In parallel, Muslim-majority regimes, from Egypt to the Gulf states, are equally complicit. They posture as defenders of Palestine while closing their borders, hosting Israeli delegations, and deepening security and economic ties with Tel Aviv. Their cowardice and betrayal have left Palestinians surrounded not only by enemies, but by collaborators.
Gaza has become an open-air concentration camp, where over two million Palestinians are bombed, starved, and used as target practice. They are denied food and water, then gunned down while collecting it.
This is not war. This is the annihilation of the indigenous population.
And those who enable it, through weapons, silence, or performative diplomacy, are not neutral. They are aiding and abetting genocide.
As Gaza’s children die from bullets and breadlines, the world’s power centres watch and do nothing. They will be remembered. Not for what they said, but for what they allowed.
The starving bodies of Gaza are not just a humanitarian catastrophe. They are an indictment of the Israeli regime, of global fascism, and of a world order built on racism, hate, impunity, and lies.
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