Hunger walks through Gaza’s streets now — barefoot, silent, and uninvited. It slips between tents and bombed-out homes, sits beside the fireless cooking pots, and climbs into the arms of children who no longer cry because they’ve learned that hunger, too, can be ignored.

This is an engineered famine — deliberate starvation under Israeli siege: Markets are empty. Aid trucks are blocked. Weeds are being boiled for soup. Parents are forced to give their children animal feed, sand mixed with flour, or expired canned goods — if anything at all. And still, the world debates: Is this a famine or not? Is it a war crime or just “collateral damage”? Should Israel be held accountable, or protected? Should ceasefire talks include conditions — or should they happen at all?

One of my deepest fears is

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