My feed is flooded with cries for help from friends in Gaza. “We are starving,” they write—not as a metaphor, but as a heartbreaking truth.

There’s no food. People are collapsing on the streets from sheer exhaustion and hunger. One post shattered me: a father saying he felt relieved his young daughter had been martyred last year—because at least she was spared the slow agony of starvation. I can’t stop thinking about that.

This is not just a humanitarian emergency. It’s a profound moral failure of the global community. Starvation is being used as a weapon, and somehow, the world chooses silence over action. 😔

©️ Beatriz Esmer