📅 Published on: Jul 28, 2025
✍️ By: Najeeb ul Haq Ustad
Gaza is a small strip of land in the Middle East where over 2 million Palestinians live. It’s one of the most crowded places on earth, but these days, what stands out is not just the dense population — it’s the deep suffering as thousands of families struggle to get enough food to eat.
A Blockade That Suffocates Daily Life
For more than ten years, Gaza has faced a harsh blockade. This means people aren’t allowed regular access to things they need, like food, clean water, medicine, and fuel. Human rights groups often call it an “open-air prison.” Local farms are destroyed, fishermen can’t go out to sea, and trucks carrying essential aid are often stopped from entering Gaza. Life under these conditions is unbelievably difficult.
Lately, things have gotten even worse. Shops are empty, fields have been damaged, and every night, children go to bed hungry.
Children: Innocent Victims of Hunger
Aid groups say one out of every three children in Gaza is malnourished — they don’t get enough to eat to grow and stay healthy. For them, life isn’t about having hopes and dreams. It’s about just staying alive. Some mothers are so desperate that they feed their babies water with sugar because there’s simply no milk. Even bread is hard to find; clean water feels like a miracle.
No child should ever be hungry like this. Yet for children in Palestine, this is normal.
Why We Must Speak Up
Why is the world staying so quiet? People talk a lot about politics, but what’s happening in Gaza is a crisis for humanity. Everyday people not fighters are suffering.
Starvation is not just a tragedy; it’s a crime according to international law. If we say nothing, we become part of the problem.
This is About Humanity, Not Just Politics
You don’t have to be Palestinian to care. You just need compassion. When children are dying from hunger, everyone everywhere should act.
Standing with Palestinians doesn’t mean you’re against anyone. It means you support justice, dignity, and the basic right to live.
What Can You Do?
• Raise awareness: Share facts and real stories from the ground.
• Support aid organizations helping people in Gaza.
• Urge your leaders to call for a ceasefire and let humanitarian aid through.
• Don’t accept this suffering as normal — it isn’t.
In Conclusion: Choose Humanity
History will remember not just those who caused pain, but also those who did nothing. Don’t be silent. Don’t look away.
The people of Palestine are asking for the most basic human rights: food, water, safety, and freedom.
Let’s stand up, not just for Palestine, but for our shared humanity.