In an era where crimes are no longer committed in secret, but rather in full view of the entire world and broadcast live, Gaza today is sinking into one of the most horrific humanitarian disasters of the twenty-first century.

This is not a conventional war between two armies, nor a confrontation with a resistance movement; rather, it is a systematic policy aimed at destroying the conditions of life and starving children, with the goal of exterminating people while they are still alive—slowly and openly.

The war of genocide against the Gaza Strip is approaching its second year, and with each passing day, a stark reality becomes more entrenched: What is happening is not merely a war, but a comprehensive crime of starvation, intended to annihilate an entire people through a suffocating blockade, depriving the population of food, water, and medicine, in addition to bombardment and killing by all available means, including artificial intelligence technologies.

It is a war of extermination using modern methods, carried out amid global silence and official complicity.

Today, Gaza embodies the height of historical injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people for more than a century. Since the Nakba, Palestinians have faced ongoing military occupation, systematic colonial settlement, suffocating siege, mass killings, land confiscation, the Judaization of Jerusalem, and deprivation of their most basic civil and political rights.

It is a complex suffering that does not stop at the borders of geography, but extends to all aspects of life and human dignity.

Day after day, Palestinians live under the yoke of a comprehensive system of oppression that does not distinguish between north and south, civilian and resistance fighter, child and elder.

It is repression without exception, targeting the very existence of the Palestinian people and turning daily life into a continuous series of violations, where hunger mixes with fear, and deprivation with death.

In the West Bank, the expansion of settlements continues relentlessly, in broad daylight and under the protection of occupation soldiers. Civilians are killed at checkpoints in cold blood, camps and cities are raided repeatedly, women and children are arrested, homes are demolished over the heads of their inhabitants, and agricultural lands are bulldozed.

Military checkpoints become tools of control and humiliation, and the lives of Palestinians turn into an open stage for organized and systematic violence.

In occupied Jerusalem, the pace of Judaization is feverish; Jerusalemite neighborhoods are subjected to campaigns of forced eviction, residents are prevented from building or renovating, while settlements are granted sweeping expansionist powers.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is stormed daily by settler groups under the protection of the occupation army, in ongoing attempts to impose temporal and spatial division and erase the Islamic and Arab identity of the city.

As for Gaza, the tragedy is even more horrific. It is not only about the consequences of a bloody war of extermination, but also about a deliberate plan to starve more than two million people—including over a million children—through the imposition of a comprehensive and multilayered blockade that chokes every aspect of life: The crossings are closed, aid is besieged, water is either contaminated or cut off, and fuel is forbidden, turning daily life into a battle for survival.

Hospitals have ceased to function, and their corridors have become scenes of slow death. Children are dying in front of cameras, without milk, without food, without ventilators.

Nothing protects them from hunger and disease except cries that the world does not hear. Hundreds have died from hunger and malnutrition, most of them are children, according to reliable Palestinian and international documentation.

Even those who tried to obtain aid were targeted; nearly a thousand Palestinians were killed while gathering around aid trucks that the Israeli occupation turned into death traps.

In the twenty-first century, the world watches as hunger is used as a weapon, while the international media is distracted by airdrops or the entry of a limited number of trucks, insufficient to feed even a small neighborhood for a single day.

The Israeli occupation does not allow aid to enter by land, nor does it permit its arrival; instead, it bombs the aid if it comes close, and manipulates its distribution to turn it into a struggle and chaos, contributing to the spread of disorder.

Despite all this, Palestinians face a suspicious international silence that resembles complicity more than helplessness, while their basic demands are reduced to mere survival.

The blockade is no longer just a tool of restriction, but has become a strategy of genocide based on targeted population engineering. The Israeli forces force the population into forced displacement or slow death by hunger and disease, prevents the entry of baby formula and medical supplies, and targets relief distribution centers with bombs and bullets, so that everyone standing in line for bread becomes a potential martyr.

These are daily massacres committed under the pretext of “aid management,” and everyone who stands in line for bread or relief is a potential martyr. Despite all this, the crossings remain closed, and no real, safe humanitarian corridor is established; instead, political maneuvers continue to cover up the deliberate crime of starvation.

When we talk about Gaza, we are not merely describing a besieged geographical area, but the largest open-air prison in the world, designed by the occupation to exterminate its inhabitants in stages.

More than 2.3 million people have been besieged for 17 years, prevented from traveling, from receiving medical treatment, from education, from receiving aid, and even from simply surviving.

This strip, which after the Nakba of 1948 became home to hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by Zionist militias from their lands, homes, cities, and villages, has since become a laboratory for the occupation’s experiments in repression, siege, and starvation.

Today, more than 17,000 orphans live there, thousands suffer from amputations or permanent disabilities, and thousands of patients are left without medicine, clean water, or electricity. Schools are destroyed, universities burned, students killed on their way to learn, and teachers and academics are deliberately targeted.

In many cases, death in Gaza is no longer only the result of bombing, but hunger has become a daily cause of death, as has thirst and the spread of epidemics.

The collapse of the health system has made life an almost impossible struggle. Israel has destroyed and burned hospitals, prevented the entry of medicines, and obstructed the travel of the wounded. In this context, patients die in silence, without treatment, and not even a bed.

The repeated targeting of hospitals by the occupation was neither accidental nor random, but rather a systematic policy aimed at rendering the entire healthcare infrastructure out of service.

Thirty-six hospitals have been destroyed or shut down at various stages, amid a comprehensive medical blockade, leaving cancer, heart, kidney patients, and premature infants all facing the prospect of imminent death.

Genocide has not been limited to killing and starvation; it has also targeted education. The occupation deliberately attacked schools, universities, teachers, and students.

Thousands of students have been killed, hundreds of schools destroyed, and more than a million students have been deprived of their right to education, in one of the most heinous crimes against the future of an entire people.

What is happening in Gaza can only be described as a full-fledged crime of genocide. According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, there is a clear intent to destroy a particular group, with mass killing and systematic deprivation of the necessities of life, in addition to open incitement by political and military leaders to erase Gaza and its people.

To this day, the bodies of thousands remain under the rubble, as Israeli forces refuse to allow their retrieval. Airstrikes continue to target civilians, without any legal or humanitarian protection, amid shameful international silence and blatant Western complicity.

What is happening in Gaza is not merely a violation or a failure; it is a major scandal for the international system and its institutions. The global justice system has failed the test of Gaza, revealing its racist bias when it comes to a people deprived of the tools of power, yet possessing awareness, dignity, and will.

The crime has not stopped at killing and bombing, but has extended to a double political charade practiced by Israel and the United States, who share roles in a systematic deception. One bombs, the other proposes “initiatives,” and the result is buying time, absorbing global outrage, and continuing the genocide under the guise of “negotiations.”

When we speak of Palestine today, we are not describing a mere humanitarian issue on the margins of news bulletins, nor a political conflict between two parties. We are talking about a mirror that exposes the world’s flaws, a moral compass to determine where each of us stands: with justice or with oppression, with life or with extermination.

Palestine has become an open laboratory for global repression, where artificial intelligence technologies are tested in killing and surveillance, systematic media distortion is practiced, the narrative of resistance is criminalized, the executioner is granted immunity, the victim is pursued, the aggressor is celebrated, and people who show solidarity with Gaza and Palestine are punished.

What is happening in Palestine is not a local matter, nor a border conflict, but a global challenge to human conscience, to the effectiveness of international law, and the very concept of global justice.

Recent years have proven that the occupation is not only an ongoing crime, but also a blatant exposé of the extent of Western complicity and the contradiction between slogans and actions.

Gaza is not just a name on a small map; it is a symbol of human dignity. Either we stand for justice there, or we allow the collapse of what remains of the global system of values.

Gaza is a test of human conscience, a test of the international system, and a test for everyone who claims to stand with the oppressed.

Let Gaza be our moral standard, in a time when massacres intersect with hypocrisy, and killing with silence.