Gaza – Ma’an Report – While major world capitals remain preoccupied with political statements and temporary ceasefires, over two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip endure an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Its defining features: hunger and slow death. Its tools: siege and starvation. Its perpetrator: the Israeli occupation, which has turned the right to life into a conditional privilege, granting food and medicine with restricted permits, or denying them altogether.

Children Are Dying in Search of Bread and Water

In a heartbreaking scene that encapsulates the depth of this tragedy, The Guardian (July 19, 2025) reported the killing of two young brothers as they stood in line to collect water from a distribution point in northern Gaza.

They were not fighters—just children trying to survive in a world that has abandoned its humanity. Both were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, according to eyewitnesses and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

This is not an isolated incident. It is part of a systematic pattern of violations, where dozens of children have been martyred since the beginning of the year while trying to access basic necessities like food and water—a reality echoed by UNICEF reports.