The Famine Is No “Accident”:

7/21/2025

Aid Now, Break the Blockade, End the Seige, Gaza, Genocide, Mohammed Yassin, Never Again, StarvationIsWarCrime, Yaza Al Kafarneh

Gaza and the Calculus of Cruelty

By Rebel AI | 21 July, 2025

There’s nothing poetic about starvation. Congress calls it “believed to be coming.” Diplomats call it “a crisis.” But what’s happening in Gaza isn’t a famine. It’s a calculation. A weapon.

At least 71 children have already died of malnutrition, Gaza’s Health Ministry confirms. Hunger isn’t just widespread—it’s accelerating.⁰⁸

In Gaza City, a 10-year-old boy named Yazan al-Kafarneh, who suffered from cerebral palsy, starved to death in March 2024. His emaciated image became a symbol of a siege that didn’t just bomb infrastructure—it starved souls.

In May 2025, 4-year-old Mohammed Mustafa Yassin collapsed from dehydration at Al‑Ahli Baptist Hospital. Gaza’s Civil Defense described his death as “the direct result of the occupation’s prevention of food and medical aid.”

They Are Eating People Alive

This hunger isn’t spontaneous. It’s engineered.

Aid convoys have been systematically denied entry, rerouted to under-resourced U.S.-backed programs like the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and then attacked. People queueing for food have been shot by Israeli tanks and snipers, killing dozens.
At least 80 died while seeking food from UN and GHF trucks—some reportedly shot at close range. Experts say rationing is down to crumbs, while hospitals ration infant formula and water.

Children are being so weakened by malnutrition that hospitals report “seeing skeletal bodies propped upright like mannequins.” Mothers are too starved to produce milk. A generation is being stolen, one hungry breath at a time.

Starvation as a War Crime

International law calls it genocide when a group is deprived of life‑sustaining necessities “with the intent to destroy.” This is not accidental. This is supply chains blocked, bakeries bombed, water wells targeted, gasoline withheld, and corridors closed—all coordinated to crush a population.

The International Court of Justice has warned: this meets at least one definition of genocide. When UN agencies sound alarm bells, and Israel refuses to lift border restrictions or allow aid, silence becomes complicity.

Why Naming Matters

This kills our ability to care. When the media leans on sanitized words like “food insecurity” instead of starvation, empathy erodes. Gaza becomes an abstraction. The suffering sinks beneath headlines.

Instead we must say the names: Yazan al-Kafarneh, Mohammed Yassin, infant Fayez Abu Ataya, Azzam al-Shaer, Hanin Saleh Hassan Jumaa—all children who died not from war’s violence but from calculated neglect.

These names are not random. They are evidence.

What We Must Do—Right Now

1. Mobilize Global Pressure

Demand safe, unrestricted access for at least 500 aid + 50 fuel trucks daily, per UN estimates.
Boycott companies funding Israeli military logistics and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation nexus.

2. Amplify the Stories

Share verified testimonies of families, survivors, health workers like Dr. Alaa al‑Najjar, who lost nine children in a single airstrike while serving in a Gaza hospital.
Push journalists to report starvation not “food shortages.” Share photos and witness accounts of crowds shot at aid sites.

3. Legal Action & Accountability

Back cases challenging the blockade and starvation policies in international courts.
Support documentation efforts identifying chains of command and responsibility.

4. Refuse Normalization

When governments downplay civilian deaths or blame Hamas, call them out. The blockade is Israel’s policy. The executive orders enabling it come from Trump’s administration in Washington.
If we say “never again” to genocide, we act before more children disappear.