The Security Council, a partner in crime, is a failure of international institutions to defend humanity.
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 huddled together, rushed towards a bucket of food, wailing. This image alone tests the world: does justice have any meaning? Is human rights still a living slogan? Today’s Gaza is the epitome 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; it has also become a special, silent form of genocide, with a complete siege, deliberate starvation, attacks on medical facilities, bombing of food lines, and the destruction of vital infrastructure—gradual genocide through starvation, which Article 3 of the 1948 Convention defines as a crime against humanity.
The statistics in July 2025 are more shocking than ever. 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 the WHO and FEWS NET.
Israel has launched a food war instead of a military war. According to the UNICEF report, only a very limited number of trucks carrying food aid have entered Gaza by the last week of July. This is while the official estimate of humanitarian agencies shows that at least 300 trucks must enter the strip every day just to survive. Children are being shot dead in bread lines, carrying empty pots. In the past week alone, 73 people in food distribution lines were directly targeted. International organizations have reported that in the Al-Breij and Beit Lahia areas, Israeli soldiers have turned bread lines into slaughterhouses.
The crimes do not end with food alone. In recent days, the European Hospital in Gaza and the Nasr Hospital in Khan Yunis have been directly targeted. In Nasr Hospital, only the pediatric ward was operational. Dr. Marwan Sultan, the only cardiologist operating in southern Gaza, was killed along with his family. To date, more than 1,500 medical personnel have been killed since the beginning of the war. More than 250 medical facilities have been destroyed or rendered unusable. Even ambulances have not been spared by Israeli fire.
Meanwhile, water supply and sewage facilities have been destroyed. Half of the wells are out of service, and infectious diseases such as meningitis, dysentery, and skin infections have spread in the camps. The World Health Organization, in an official report, has described the situation in Gaza as “a catastrophe beyond imagination.”