[News] Gaza Isn't Starving, It Is Being Starved

Mon Jul 21 10:35:28 EDT 2025

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Malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza are beginning to climb 
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with the health ministry reporting 18 in a single 24-hour period. 
Doctors report 
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people are “collapsing” in the street, and Gaza journalist Nahed Hajjaj 
is warning the world 
<https://substack.com/redirect/456ddba5-0d8f-48f1-b812-7210ed16df17?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>not 
to be surprised if the remaining reporters in the enclave are soon 
silenced by starvation.

Unless something drastically changes, things can be expected to get much 
worse very rapidly.

Meanwhile Israeli forces are setting new records 
<https://substack.com/redirect/9d4ff9c1-fe69-4e47-a1b8-7025ed760418?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>with 
their massacres of starving civilians seeking aid, with 85 killed in a 
single day on Sunday.

If this isn’t evil, then nothing is evil. If Israel isn’t evil, then 
nothing is.

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So what’s the plan here? Do we just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to 
death with the support of our own governments?

And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that 
happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization 
is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our 
rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any 
time?

We’re just meant to be cool with that? And go on living like it’s normal?

I’m genuinely curious. How exactly is everyone planning to go about 
living their lives after that point? How does that work, exactly?

I’m asking because I don’t know. I mean, I know what my own government 
and its allies should do, but I don’t know what we as ordinary members 
of the public are supposed to do.

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You’ll see western pundits and politicians asking “How do we get a 
ceasefire in Gaza?” or “How do we end hunger in Gaza?” as though it’s 
some kind of ineffable mystery, which is kind of like a man strangling a 
child to death while saying “The child is being strangled, but HOW do we 
stop the child strangulation from occurring?”

It’s not some mystery how to get a ceasefire in Gaza; the empire 
/*is*/the fire. It simply needs to cease firing. Israel’s holocaust in 
Gaza is made possible only by the support of its western backers, 
primarily the United States. Numerous Israeli military insiders 
<https://substack.com/redirect/54a367cc-2c83-4d2a-807f-aafb3dd7b9d7?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>have 
acknowledged 
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none of this would be possible without US support. If the United States 
and its western allies ceased backing Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, a 
ceasefire would have to occur.

Likewise, it is not a mystery how to get food into Gaza. You just drive 
the food on in and give it to people. They’ve got roads and gates right 
there. The only reason people in Gaza are starving is because western 
governments (including 
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own Australia) conspired 
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pretend to believe that UNRWA is a terrorist organization to justify 
cutting off critical aid 
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while doing nothing to pressure Israel into allowing aid to flow freely.

And now Israel and the US empire are monopolizing the delivery of “aid” 
<https://substack.com/redirect/f44fe39f-02c2-40a1-8e3f-c391c2d544b4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>through 
the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose facilities now see 
civilians massacred every day for the crime of attempting to obtain food.

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https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1946495329928388841 
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The organizations, funding and delivery systems to feed Gaza are all 100 
percent 
<https://substack.com/redirect/16fa3464-d11c-40c2-b550-c38806ac9c41?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>fully 
available 
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no cost to Israel, by the way). They’re just not being allowed to 
provide aid because the goal is to remove all Palestinians 
<https://substack.com/redirect/c0a64205-a1a0-4cf3-8628-0da0cf18a787?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>from 
Gaza via death or displacement. The people of Gaza are starving because 
the west is helping Israel starve Gaza. It really is that simple.

This isn’t some kind of unfortunate famine caused by a drought or 
natural disaster. It is a deliberately manufactured starvation campaign, 
implemented with genocidal intent.

To paraphrase Utah Phillips, Gaza isn’t starving, it is being starved. 
And the people who are starving it have names and addresses.

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