In July, Gaza experienced one of its deadliest months, with reports indicating a death every 12 minutes due to Israeli actions. Over 1,000 Palestinians have died in pursuit of food, amidst systematic starvation tactics causing severe humanitarian crises. Aid distribution is hampered by danger and shortages, leaving parents to face impossible choices regarding their children's needs. The psychological and societal impacts of starvation are profound and potentially intergenerational. Accusations emerge regarding the hindrance of aid efforts, pointing fingers at groups like Hamas, while fundamental questions of responsibility persist regarding civilian suffering.
Starvation wreaks lifelong damage on physical and mental health, perhaps including that of future generations, and destroys societies as well as lives. People are forced to make impossible choices, such as deciding which of their children needs food most.
Parents watch their children wither. Adults collapse on the street. Even if food could be distributed fairly under the new system—and it cannot—it is utterly insufficient.
Behind these visible deaths lies the horror of systematic starvation: minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed.
To deliberately inflict starvation upon a society is to take it to pieces. The genocide convention prohibits deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
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