PNN – The war that Israel has waged in the Gaza Strip is not defined by bombing and artillery alone; it has become a special kind of genocide of humanity with a complete blockade, deliberate starvation, and the bombing of food lines.
In July 2025, a picture was published in the media: a girl with a dusty face, messy hair, and an empty pot in her hand, staring in horror at a large pot of half-cooked food. A group of children, with pots pressed together, rushed towards a bucket of food, moaning. This image alone tests the world: Does justice have any meaning? Are human rights still a living slogan? Today’s Gaza is the crystallization of the collapse of the global conscience.
The war that Israel has waged in the Gaza Strip is not defined by bombing and artillery alone; rather, with its complete blockade, deliberate starvation, attacks on medical facilities, bombing of food lines, and destruction of vital infrastructure, it has become a specific and silent form of genocide: gradual genocide through starvation, which Article 3 of the 1948 Convention considers a clear example of a crime against humanity.
The statistics are more shocking than ever in July 2025. According to the official report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), more than 59,000 Gazans have been martyred. Among them are more than 17,000 children and 9,000 women. These figures were not provided by human rights activists, but by official global institutions such as WHO and FEWS NET.
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Israel has waged a food war instead of a military war. According to UNICEF, only a very limited number of trucks carrying food aid have entered Gaza as of the last week of July. This is despite official estimates from humanitarian agencies that at least 300 trucks must enter the Strip every day just to keep the people of Gaza alive. Children are being shot dead in bread lines, holding empty pots. In the past week alone, 73 people have been directly shot in food distribution lines. International organizations have clearly reported that in the Al-Briej and Beit Lahia areas, Israeli soldiers have turned bread lines into slaughterhouses.
However, the silence of international institutions has become more deadly than the bombs. While the UN Security Council held several emergency meetings in a week on the Ukraine crisis, it has only issued ineffective statements in response to the carnage in Gaza.
The US, through repeated vetoes, has prevented the adoption of even a single binding resolution against Israel. This institution, which was supposed to be a symbol of global security and peace, today stands as an accomplice in crime.
Meanwhile, America’s role goes far beyond diplomatic support. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States sent more than $4.2 billion in military aid to Israel in 2024 alone.
Many of the bombs that destroyed schools, mosques, and hospitals were made by American factories. Then, on international platforms, the same powers talk about “human rights.”
The task is not the sole responsibility of governments. This test is the test of nations. This suffering is not the suffering of Muslims; it is the suffering of humanity. Every free person in every corner of the world must now consider himself part of this cry. From Latin America to East Asia, from Europe to Africa, this crime is a common test of the global conscience.
Governments that still have political independence, especially Arab and Muslim governments, along with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has loudly defended Palestine for decades, should take the lead. Legal documentation, pursuing cases at the International Criminal Court, forming diplomatic resistance coalitions, and even military support to defend civilians are part of this historic responsibility.
But without the support of the nations, this path will remain incomplete. Nations must raise their voices, organize demonstrations, bring media pressure, sign international petitions. Because if Gaza remains silent, tomorrow it will be the turn of each of us. This crime is a crime against all of us.