Between the moans of infants in incubators silenced by power cuts, and the cries of mothers waiting for a drop of fuel to save their loved ones, Gaza today paints the face of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in modern times—while the world stands in lines of silence.

“The situation in Gaza has surpassed the threshold of catastrophe,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, in words that leave no room for sugarcoating. A reality where siege has become a guillotine, hunger a weapon, and childhood an open target for slow death.

In Nasser Hospital, intensive care units are no longer safe havens for newborns, but waiting rooms for death. “The depletion of fuel and the shutdown of devices and infant incubators is a death sentence,” said the head of the pediatric department.

These words are not exaggerations; they simply reflect the moment life is stolen from those who haven’t yet learned how to cry.

The besieged Gaza Strip now stands on the brink of famine, already witnessing infant deaths due to malnutrition—a terrifying precedent of what lies ahead.

“Infant deaths are an alarming indicator of the looming famine,” warn doctors in Gaza, where baby formula is costlier than hope and medicine a delayed dream.

Amid this collapse, Gaza’s Ministry of Health issued a desperate plea: “We urge relevant parties to pressure the occupation to allow the entry of fuel supplies to operate generators.”

Patients are suffocating, operating rooms have shut down, and more than 300 people require urgent medical evacuation outside the Strip, according to the World Health Organization.

But the catastrophe isn’t limited to the wounded and the sick—it strikes at human dignity itself. UNRWA, overwhelmed by the chaos of aid distribution, stated: “The current aid distribution system has humiliated hungry, terrified, injured, and exhausted families—and stripped them of their humanity.”

More than that, submitting to the aid mechanism controlled by the usurping entity and the United States has, according to Doctors Without Borders, become another tool of mass death under the pretext of “humanitarian assistance”—as people are killed while running for food.

In a scene that encapsulates madness, the usurping entity continues to target displaced Palestinian families—even in areas it labeled as “safe,” according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The clearest indictment came from the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestine: “Israel is responsible for one of the most genocidal campaigns in history.”

Words that need no commentary—only justice, which remains absent.

In this hell, international voices are growing louder, demanding the lifting of the blockade: “Fuel must be allowed to enter Gaza on a large scale through the UN to sustain life-saving services,” said UNRWA.
Its communications officer added: “Lifting the blockade is essential to save lives and allow the UN to carry out its work.”

In Gaza, there is no time for new statements, no space left for hope under systematic starvation and a deadly siege. Only the truth remains: Gaza is not dying from bombs alone… but from hunger managed in closed offices, and complicity sealed in closed eyes.