Gaza Is Starving. The World Is Watching.

“Never Again” has become “Yet Again”

I opened Substack today with the intention of writing something reflective — it’s been 20 years since I started working. A milestone. But I couldn’t. Not today.

Gaza is starving. The West Bank is bleeding. And the world is just… watching.

We are witnessing people die — slowly, publicly, painfully — in what’s often described as the world’s largest open-air prison. Not just from bombs, but from starvation, dehydration, disease, untreated wounds. From being dehumanized so completely that even the act of asking for food or water is labeled “political.”

Where are the sanctions now? The same Western world that sanctioned Russia for invading Ukraine is now funding and arming Israel — not for defense, but for devastation. In Gaza, the issue isn’t weapons. It’s flour. Bread. Clean water. Medicine. Shelter. Dignity.

Tens of thousands are dead. An independent survey (link) reports over 84,000 fatalities between October 2023 and January 2025. At this rate, we are likely past 120,000 by now. Gaza is being erased — soul by soul, child by child, block by block.

Entire neighborhoods have been leveled. Schools bombed. Hospitals collapsed. UN shelters hit repeatedly. Controlled demolitions are wiping out what little remains — not as collateral damage, but as policy.

Even Deutsche Welle (DW) — the official German state broadcaster, from a country continuously supportive of Israel — reported yesterday that a third of Gaza’s population hasn’t eaten in days (that is more than 700,000 persons). 2.2 million face acute food insecurity — a man-made famine, orchestrated with intent.

And yet, the report (predictably) repeats that “Hamas is a terrorist group” and mentions the 1,200 Israeli deaths on October 7 strategically — but doesn’t name Israel even once as responsible for the starvation. No mention of its siege. No mention of Egypt’s complicity either.

Mainstream media shows the horror but avoids the question: Who is doing this? Instead, they regurgitate sanitized headlines, bury the truth in paragraph twelve, or blame Hamas. Again.

Yes, Hamas committed atrocities on October 7. But since then? Israel has killed at least 100 times more — by bomb, by blockade, by bureaucratic starvation.

And still, the global “Never Again” has become “Yet Again”, broadcast in HD, narrated by silence.

News outlets report death tolls, but often passively — “X people killed in Gaza today” — as if death is falling from the sky, unauthored. Rarely do they lead with: “Israel kills dozens in latest airstrike.” And only occasionally do headlines cut through, like this one from the BBC: “Israel leveling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions.” (link)

We are watching a genocide unfold — and the media is trying to both report it and obscure it.

A recent BBC piece featured a retired U.S. soldier working with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It reported that 766 people had died near one of the GHF’s four aid centers. But nowhere in the written article does it say who killed them. Only if you watch the video do you hear it: the Israeli army. (link)

Israel claims it’s withholding aid to stop Hamas from stealing it — a claim their own military admitted has no proof (link, link). The same narrative was used to defund UNRWA, based on unverified accusations (link). Billions in humanitarian aid are now held hostage by propaganda.

Germany still waves the Israeli flag in solidarity. With what, exactly? Mass starvation? War crimes? The U.S. is sanctioning ICC judges for investigating Israel — while arming it with billions. Even CNN and BBC, outlets not known for pro-Palestinian coverage, are reporting horrors from Gaza — albeit with carefully chosen words to avoid assigning blame.

Again: a third of Gaza hasn’t eaten in days. Read that again.

And still, somehow, this is all Hamas’ fault?

As if Hamas controls the border crossings. As if they decide which aid trucks get in. As if they’re the only ones blocking a ceasefire — when Egypt, Qatar, and even Hamas have said progress is possible, while Israel and the U.S. keep shifting the goalposts and changing the terms. (link)

Israeli ministers have said — publicly, repeatedly — that this won’t end until Gaza is emptied. Ethnic cleansing, with bullet points (link).

And then there’s Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur who was sanctioned by the U.S. (and, of course, by Israel) for speaking the truth. She listed companies profiting from the war. She named names. And for that, she’s being hunted by an international smear campaign. Try Googling her — the ads speak louder than the articles. (link)

This isn’t just a failure of politics. It’s a collapse of morality.

The world has lost its mind — or maybe it never had one. Maybe we just see it clearer now.

Wake up.

History is happening. And history will remember those who stayed quiet.