by Amal Zadok
This month, August 2025, a Zionist Facebook user confidently declared, “There’s plenty of food in Gaza—it’s all smoke and mirrors.” This statement goes far beyond ignorance; it is a deliberate erasure of suffering in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes.
Gaza is enduring a catastrophic, officially confirmed famine—making denial not just error, but an act of indifference and cruelty.
The Reality: Famine Confirmed, Suffering Expanding
On August 21, 2025, global authorities including IPC, WHO, UNICEF, and WFP all declared famine in Gaza, the first such event in Middle Eastern history.
Over half a million people are “trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths.” By end of September, 641,000 people are expected to be in catastrophic hunger, with another 1.14 million in emergency and 396,000 in crisis—virtually the entire strip gripped by acute food insecurity.
Children are being devastated at unprecedented rates. UNICEF and Save the Children confirm: “Children with wasted bodies, too weak to cry; babies dying from hunger and preventable disease; parents arriving at clinics with nothing left to feed their children.” There are now 132,000 children under five with acute malnutrition, of which 41,000 are severe, and 55,500 pregnant and breastfeeding women are also in peril.
Aid access is collapsing. In July, only 13% of humanitarian shipments made it to families, covering just six days of food needs per month. 80% of households risked their lives searching for food. At least 1,800 civilians have died seeking aid since May.
Local food production has been obliterated. 98% of cropland is destroyed or inaccessible by siege and violence, forcing Gaza to rely on aid convoys that are routinely blocked or looted. Market prices have skyrocketed, leaving staples beyond the reach of nearly every family.
Eyewitness Testimony: Voices Denial Silences
Save the Children’s CEO: “Gaza’s children have reached their breaking point. Where is yours?”
A local journalist: “Sometimes I faint at my desk. I report on famine, but I am starving too. Sometimes I have nothing to give my own child.”
A Gaza mother: “My baby cries from hunger. I have no milk, no food, no hope. Each day, I pray for something to eat. But there is nothing.”
Palestinian reporters: “We ourselves are hungry and in pain… Sometimes I cannot focus on reporting because I am searching for food for my own children.”
Why Gaza Starves—and Why Denial Is Dangerous
This famine is not an act of nature—it is entirely man-made. BBC and UN agencies confirm: “Israel has systematically obstructed food entering Gaza, as a weapon of war.”
Aid leaders warn famine will rapidly expand unless humanitarian access is immediately restored.
Denial on social media is not harmless. It sanitizes policies that weaponize hunger. It erases agony, shifts the blame, and turns starvation into online rhetoric instead of a demand for action. Every lie of “plenty” emboldens suffering.
The Moral and Historic Stakes
History is merciless toward those who deny famine—in Ireland, Ethiopia, Bengal, and now Gaza. Today’s evidence is irrefutable:
•Famine confirmed, mass death ongoing
•Children and families suffering beyond measure
•Aid obstructed, hope running out
Dismissing this reality is a deep moral failure. To mock the tragedy of starving children is to become part of the machinery of cruelty. But the truth cannot be silenced—Gaza’s agony is real.
There is no room for hesitation or polite debate in the face of a famine that is engineered, witnessed, and endured by millions.
To those who still post the lie of “plenty,” let this be clear: every denial is a stone cast at starving children, every falsehood fuels one more wasted life, and every shrug emboldens the machinery of starvation.
In Gaza, the world stands at a crossroads—not between ignorance and awareness, but between complicity and conscience. If we choose silence, we choose the side of cruelty. If we confront the deniers with unflinching fact and relentless empathy, we join humanity in its fight for justice, survival, and dignity.
Gaza’s agony is not “smoke and mirrors”—it is the urgent summons to act, to amplify, and never to forget. The eyes of history—and every starving child—are fixed on what we do next.
Sources (all August 2025):
1-WHO – “Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza” (21 August 2025)
• Collective statement by WHO, UNICEF, WFP, FAO and IPC panel.
• Confirms famine, mortality trends, and malnutrition estimates.
• https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-for-first-time-in-gaza
2. IPC Global Initiative – “Gaza Strip: Famine confirmed in Gaza Governorate, Special Snapshot” (22 August 2025)
• Full report: Projected numbers for famine-affected, Emergency/Crisis populations, and malnutrition.
• Includes 132,000 children under five acutely malnourished, 41,000 severe cases.
3. UN News – “Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief” (21 August 2025)
• Official UN summary of IPC findings; humanitarian statements by Secretary-General and others.
• https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165702
4. UNICEF Australia – “Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza” (22 August 2025)
• Focus on malnutrition and health crisis for children; testimonial quotes.
• https://www.unicef.org.au/media-release/famine-confirmed-for-first-time-in-gaza
5. ReliefWeb/IPC – “Gaza Strip: Famine confirmed in Gaza Governorate, Projected Expansion (22 August 2025)”
• Rapid situation updates often cited by UN, WHO, media.
6. BBC – “How Israel’s policies created famine in Gaza” (22 August 2025)
• Links food insecurity to conflict, operational blockages, and government policy.
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4p90z1kxo
7. Minderoo Foundation – “Statement on the IPC report confirming famine in Gaza” (22 August 2025)
• International foundation summarizing IPC Famine Review Committee, 240+ recorded famine deaths in August, over 100 children.
• https://www.minderoo.org/media/statement-on-the-ipc-report-confirming-famine-in-gaza/
8. FAO/GIEWS – “GIEWS Update – Gaza Strip, 27 August 2025”
• FAO’s global early warning system, confirming projections and crop destruction.
• http://openknowledge.fao.org/items/ff67df28-6700-4f02-b24c-7366c2c63024
9. Al Jazeera – “UN says Gaza famine expanding…” (27 August 2025)
• Confirms famine spread, current child fatality numbers, and humanitarian statements from the UN Security Council.
10. UN OCHA/OHCHR/WFP/WHO – “Gaza: Famine Irrefutably Confirmed, UN Humanitarians Unite in Plea for Aid Access” (22 August 2025)
• High-level press briefing, direct humanitarian leadership testimony.
• https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-ohchr-wfp-who-press-briefing-22aug25/
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