Hell in the Holy Land, Gaza Being Starved By Netanyahu, Plans To Create Apocalyptic Chaos, T Gosling

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Mr Philippe Lazzarini, has blamed the so-called US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, for the deepening famine in the besieged territory.

'You'll get hell': How Israeli officials justify using starvation as weapon of war in Gaza Thursday, 24 July 2025

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By Humaira Ahad

Lana no longer plays with her brother. The rosy-complexioned child who once ran barefoot across the courtyard now sits slumped against a cement wall, her yellowed skin barely concealing the skeleton underneath.

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“She can’t walk. She can’t stand for long,” wrote Alaa Arafat, the aunt of little Lana. “All she wants is to sleep and sit. I can’t believe what has become of her.”

Lana is one of Gaza’s million children, over half the besieged territory's population, enduring the slow and systematic agony of the Israeli regime’s starvation campaign.

For months now, the war-ravaged coastal strip has been at the epicenter of what experts describe as a textbook case of genocidal assault—one that uses hunger itself as a calculated instrument of war.

The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that 101 Palestinians, including 80 children, have already died from starvation and dehydration since the genocidal war began.

In the last week alone, dozens more hunger-related deaths were reported across the territory with haunting images shared on social media platforms.

A policy with deep roots

From former Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol’s 1967 remark, “We’ll deprive Gaza of water, and the Arabs will leave,” to the current architects of the genocidal war, Israel’s approach has remained strikingly consistent, with starvation being used as an instrument of occupation and ethnic cleansing.

Internal documents and years of public statements by the regime's political and military officials paint a chilling picture, with almost all of them being unapologetic and brazen in their war rhetoric.

Starvation was first publicly crystallized in 2007, following the landslide electoral victory of the Hamas resistance movement in Gaza, when Dov Weissglas, adviser to the then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, openly called for starving Palestinians.

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” he said.

Israeli documents revealed an explicit calculation of caloric needs for the Gaza population. The amount of food allowed inside the besieged strip was measured to hover just above famine thresholds.

Israeli rights group Gisha later explained the policy: “Israel banned glucose for biscuits and the fuel needed for regular supply of electricity, paralyzing normal life in Gaza and impairing the moral character of the State of Israel. I am sorry to say that major elements of this policy are still in place,” the group’s director was quoted as saying in 2010.

Starvation as a strategy

Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the regime has dropped the veil of plausible deniability.

Starvation has now been embraced as an open tactic of war against Palestinians, especially vulnerable children.

One after another, regime officials have advocated denying food, water, fuel, and medicine to the entire population of Gaza.

Moshe Saada, an Israeli Knesset member, stated with brutal clarity that he was interested in "starving the Gazans and imposing a siege to the max," adding that "whoever wants to leave will leave to a humanitarian zone that we will administer.” (April 24, 2025)

Itamar Ben-Gvir, far-right minister and a staunch advocate of settler-colonialism, declared that the food and aid depots "should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure.” (April 23, 2025)

Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, far-right finance minister and head of the Religious Zionism Party, said the time was ripe "to completely stop the transfer of humanitarian aid to Hamas... the time has come to occupy the Gaza Strip, to seize territory from them permanently ..." (February 10, 2025)

Avigdor Lieberman, former deputy prime minister and finance minister of the regime, took it further back to 2024: “The only arrangement that needs to be made with Gaza is to stop all transfers of humanitarian aid, equipment, fuel, electricity and water,” he said. (August 28, 2024)