Gaza City — The world’s leading food security authority has declared famine in Gaza. More than a million people, nearly one quarter of the enclave’s population, are facing catastrophic hunger. Palestinian children arrive at hospitals skeletal, with ribs protruding and skin clinging to bone. doctors report dozens of deaths from starvation. This is not a natural disaster. It is a policy, calculated and imposed.
Amid this human devastation, another silent tragedy unfolds: the slow death of journalism itself in Gaza. reporters who once carried Palestinian voices to the world now write that they too will die, not from bombs but from hunger. AFP journalists issued a chilling appeal: “Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.”
Their warning is not simply a cry for food. It is a warning that Israel’s genocide is silencing the truth, erasing witnesses, and ensuring no eyes remain to record the suffering.
Starvation as Israel’s chosen weapon of extermination
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global authority on famine declarations, confirmed in August 2025 that conditions in Gaza City meet the technical definition of famine: acute food shortages, mass child malnutrition, and rising death tolls.
Israel continues to insist that it “permits aid” into Gaza. Yet humanitarian agencies and UN officials say what little aid enters is systematically blocked, destroyed, or delayed. Food convoys have been bombed. Distribution points have been shelled. aid workers themselves have been killed. Starvation has been weaponized.
Using hunger to force a population into submission is a war crime under international law. But in Gaza, it has become a central feature of Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide, a genocide conducted not only with bombs but with empty stomachs.
AFP journalist starved into silence under Israeli blockade
Journalists inside Gaza, once the last line of accountability, now find themselves victims of the very crisis they report. AFP staff wrote of their physical decline: “My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Another reporter admitted she may not survive even the short journey from her shelter to any evacuation point.
More than 150 journalists have been killed since Israel began its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza, after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Those who remain are not spared. Starvation is slowly killing them, as Israel continues to block life-saving aid, bombing convoys, shelling distribution points, and turning back trucks at its checkpoints.
Even food parcels and medical supplies that do manage to enter are often delayed until they rot or are destroyed before reaching the starving. Videos have also emerged showing Israeli forces opening fire on desperate Palestinians gathered for food distribution, killing and wounding those who were already starving from hunger, a brutal war crime under international law. This deliberate denial of humanitarian relief ensures that even if bombs do not fall, their silence will still be guaranteed.
For a world dependent on local reporters to understand the reality of Gaza, this silencing is deliberate and devastating. The Gaza genocide continues unseen, unrecorded, unchallenged.
US taxpayer dollars bankroll Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Behind Israel’s bombs and blockade lies Washington. year after year, the US Congress authorizes billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, a subsidy to fund missiles, tanks, drones, and ammunition. Every weapon dropped on Gaza bears the label “paid for by American taxpayers.”
Americans struggling with debt, collapsing healthcare, and underfunded schools are told their taxes defend democracy abroad. In truth, they fund genocide. Starving children in Gaza are as much victims of American tax policy as of Israeli bombs.
This arrangement has long raised moral questions. Why does the US, a nation of 330 million, bow so completely to a state of 9 million? Why does Congress rush aid packages for Israel while hesitating to pass relief for Americans at home? The answer is political capture.
Israel’s claws grip Washington, turning America into a proxy
Israel’s influence over Washington is not subtle. Its lobby shapes legislation, drafts speeches, and ensures no us president dares speak of sanctions or accountability. billions in taxpayer funds are transferred to Israel annually, with little debate and virtually no oversight.
Israel nuclear theft weapons grade uranium Numec affairEven when Israel violates our laws, Washington looks away. In the 1960s, Israel stole weapons-grade uranium from a facility in Pennsylvania. The theft gave Tel Aviv the core of its secret nuclear arsenal, in defiance of non-proliferation norms. Investigations into the theft were quietly buried. Files vanished. No prosecution followed.
Today, Israel remains the only undeclared nuclear power in the Middle East, shielded from scrutiny by Washington’s veto at the UN. America has sanctioned Iran for nuclear research, bombed Iraq over supposed weapons of mass destruction, yet it protects Israel’s nuclear program, a glaring hypocrisy that exposes the double standard of us foreign policy.
Decades of Israeli lawlessness, from nuclear theft to massacres
and genocide in Gaza, are only the latest chapter in a long history of crimes carried out with impunity by the Israeli Regime.
In the 1960s, Israel was accused of secretly stealing weapons-grade uranium from a us facility in Apollo, Pennsylvania, a scandal known as the NUMEC affair. The material, enough to arm several nuclear warheads, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, with us intelligence strongly suspecting Israel’s hand. The theft directly fueled Israel’s covert nuclear weapons program at Dimona. Yet instead of holding Tel Aviv accountable, Washington buried the investigation. files vanished, officials remained silent, and Israel went on to become the only nuclear power in the Middle East, undeclared, unregulated, and untouchable.
According to the Guardian, the UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors, but Israel has consistently denied international inspection of its nuclear facilities and has never allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to verify its arsenal. Unlike most nations, Israel is not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), giving it a unique status where it enjoys full us backing without accepting any global accountability. While Iran and other states are relentlessly monitored and sanctioned for even civilian nuclear activity, Israel’s nuclear arsenal has been shielded by us protection, a blatant double standard and proof that Washington serves Tel Aviv’s interests above its own.
- 1967 — USS Liberty attack: Israel bombed a US Navy ship in international waters, killing 34 American sailors and wounding 171. Washington covered up the attack to protect Israel.
1982 — Lebanon invasion: Israel’s bombing campaign in Beirut killed nearly 20,000 civilians. The Sabra and Shatila massacre, carried out by Israeli-backed militias, left thousands of Palestinians butchered. No accountability followed.
2006 — Lebanon war: Israel bombed civilian infrastructure, killing over 1,000 people, mostly civilians. The UN condemned Israel, but no sanctions were imposed.
Decades of settlement expansion: In violation of UN resolutions, Israel has built illegal settlements across the West Bank, dispossessing Palestinians from their land.
International law is clear: collective punishment, starvation, and occupation are illegal. Yet Israel continues, shielded by our vetoes and Western silence.
Western media covers up Israel’s war crimes with cowardly language
If Washington’s role is to fund genocide, Western media’s role is to sanitize it.
Massacres are softened into “clashes.” bombings of refugee camps are called “strikes.” Famine engineered through blockade becomes a “food crisis.” Children starving to death are described as “victims of shortages.” The word genocide is avoided at all costs.
This language is not neutral. It serves power. By refusing to name Israel’s war crimes, media outlets in New York, London, and Paris help normalize them. Palestinian deaths are reported as statistics. Israeli deaths are mourned with names, stories, and faces.
The result is a narrative that dehumanizes Palestinians and shields Israel.
History will indict us and Israel for complicity in genocide
Silence has a cost. During the Rwandan genocide, media outlets failed to sound the alarm until it was too late. Today, the same failure is playing out genocide in Gaza, with one difference. The world now knows. Reporters inside Gaza are sending desperate appeals, documenting the genocide in real time. Their warnings are ignored not because the truth is unknown, but because the truth is inconvenient.
According to the Associated Press, AFP staff inside Gaza wrote that they are too weak to move, too hungry to work, and may not survive without intervention. “Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die,” they said.
The question is not whether the media knows what is happening. The question is why so many editors, politicians, and leaders have chosen silence.
Truth buried alongside starving Palestinians and silenced reporters
The Gaza genocide is not only the destruction of a people, but the destruction of truth. Starving children, starving journalists, and starving families are the face of a war that Washington finances and Western media excuses.
Israel commands, America obeys, Europe nods, and Palestinians die. The famine in Gaza is not only the collapse of humanitarian law, but it is the collapse of moral credibility for the West.
One day, history will indict the silence. and it will remember not only the bombs and the hunger, but the headlines that refused to call genocide by its name.
A Call to journalists to unite against war profiteering and genocide
Journalists across the world must understand that silence in the face of genocide only empowers war criminals. Journalism should never be a business of profiteering from war, for that path weakens the press and leaves each reporter vulnerable to being picked off one by one, along with their families. Today, Israel commits a holocaust in Gaza, echoing the atrocities of Hitler in Germany, but with Palestinians as the targeted victims. Yet once the press is silenced, the aggression will not stop in Gaza. Jerusalem itself is at risk, and with it the very faith of Christianity, for Israel has shown no hesitation in rewriting history and crushing sacred communities. The message is clear: if journalists do not unite to condemn the crimes of war criminals now, tomorrow, no faith, no voice, and no truth will be safe.
