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‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

illustration of a starving child sitting with an empty bowl next to him, arms raised begging for food while on the edges are all the riches of food that Gaza used to provide its people that are now out of reach

Aid distribution sites have turned into dystopian killing fields. And yet the world continues to turn a blind eye.

Palestinians who were injured in Israeli fire as they gathered near a food aid centre, receive care at Khan Yunis' Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 200, as thousands of Palestinians gathered to receive flour at an aid centre in the morning, adding "Israeli drones fired at the citizens... some minutes later, Israeli tanks fired several shells at the citizens, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded"[Unknown/AFP]