The article highlights the dire situation in Gaza following a seven-week-long Israeli blockade causing extreme humanitarian crises. Civilians, medics, and aid workers report severe conditions with bombings of infrastructure, food shortages, and the exhaustion of medical supplies. After abandoning a ceasefire, Israel resumed airstrikes and ground operations while aiding deliveries remain contingent on Hamas releasing hostages. With U.S. support, Israel continues its blockade and land seizures, raising concerns among Gazans of prolonged military presence and displacement. Famine fears are now overshadowing previous concerns over airstrikes, highlighting the scale of despair among the population.
Many people the Observer spoke to in Gaza said they are now more afraid of famine than airstrikes. Many times, I have had to give up my share of food for my son because of the severe shortages. It is the hunger that will kill me â a slow death.
The blockade is now entering its eighth week, making it the longest continuous total siege the strip has faced to date in the 18-month war.
Israel's government has framed the new siege as a security measure and has repeatedly denied using starvation as a weapon, which would constitute a war crime.
Firmly supported by the US, its most important ally under Donald Trump, Israel appears confident that it can maintain the siege with little international pushback.
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