"#Israel has not changed course. The supplies entering #Gaza are woefully short of the minimum calories Israel specified before the war. American airdrops of supplies and emergency port are a pitiful pretence of a substitute.
#Famine is unfolding in Gaza today. We should not have to wait until we count the graves of children to speak its name."
"We, the undersigned Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations, call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip. An immediate ceasefire will prevent further loss of civilian lives and facilitate access to vital aid for Gaza to address the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe there."
“My childhood was spent in the first 10 years much the same way as the children of Gaza. I know exactly what they’re going through. I know exactly how they’re feeling.” She argues “it should be an absolute standstill of all governments that you are told over 10,000 children are being murdered. There is no excuse for that.”
"The political costs incurred by the US for not ending the killing – either not wanting or not being able to do so – are likely to be gigantic, both morally, although there may not be much to lose in that regard, and strategically: the ‘indispensable nation’ paraded before the world, helpless in the face of brazen disobedience on the part of its closest international ally. "
-The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family
People search the rubble of a building following Israeli strikes on Rafah in October.
A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors."