More informative and heartbreaking posts from Hani Almadhoun, Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, who is in daily contact with family, friends, and colleagues in Gaza.

Please make a donation to his organization, which is providing food and medicine to the people of Gaza, and the Gaza Soup Kitchen, a nonprofit he founded with his brother Mahmoud, who was assassinated by an Israeli drone strike in November 2024.

All of this suffering, destruction, and death are the tragic results of the Greater Israel project spearheaded by the genocidal and terrorist state of Israel.

For those who need more context on Gaza’s man-made starvation—here’s what’s really happening. I hope this helps you understand just how dire and deliberate this crisis is.

• Borders sealed shut: Since March, Gaza’s crossings have been nearly completely closed. No food, no fuel, no medicine. Aid trucks wait for hours—only a handful are allowed through. Shelves are empty. People are starving.

• Skyrocketing prices: When goods do get in, importers must hire expensive private security to protect shipments. The result? Flour now costs $70 a kilo. Families can’t afford to feed their kids.

• Aid under constant threat: NGOs and UN agencies operate under extreme risk. There’s no functioning police—most were killed or are targeted daily by Israeli strikes. Distributing food safely requires negotiation or armed protection. Convoys are attacked or looted.

• Organized gangs intercept trucks: Just outside Kerem Shalom, entire aid convoys are hijacked. In one case, 98 of 109 trucks were stripped clean—while soldiers stood by. This isn’t random chaos. It’s exploitation, enabled by policy.

• Hunger breaks people: Fights over a bag of rice. Women attacked while carrying food. Not cruelty—just survival. This is what starvation does.

• “Humanitarian corridors” as death zones: Aid sites have become kill zones. Over 800 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect food. These aren’t humanitarian corridors—they’re ambushes.

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This isn’t just a siege. It’s a strategy.

A deliberate campaign to destroy Gaza’s social fabric—starve its people, collapse its institutions, and dissolve the very idea of community.

When society breaks, when people are forced to fend for themselves, those executing a genocide wrapped in lies gain the upper hand.

This is how you destroy a people without saying the words.

Families in Gaza wake up to this every day—empty pots, impossible choices, and the gnawing fear that tomorrow might be worse.

Don’t let silence be complicity. Understand the story behind the headlines.

Follow-Up Posts With Videos

Every delivery is a small miracle.

The first act of the day—for many of our staff—isn’t breakfast or coffee. It’s chasing down a water truck.

They call the driver, who’s already in touch with the water station. Together, they map out a plan: Where can they safely meet? Which neighborhoods are most desperate for water? How much can they carry, and how far can they go—before the fuel runs out?

Every delivery is a small miracle.

But the miracles are getting harder. Fuel is vanishing. The heat is rising. And more families are going thirsty.

Meanwhile, Israeli military policy seems almost engineered to amplify suffering. The pain Palestinians are enduring is unspeakable. Some of it defies language.

I went to bed stunned that flour had reached $35 a kilo.
I woke up to learn it had jumped to $60 per kilo.

For context: Just across the border in Egypt, a kilo of flour sells for 50 cents.

Do the math. Then ask yourself: how long can people survive like this?

Due to the chaos, lack of safety, and severe food shortages, some of our kitchens may be forced to close tomorrow. A few will try to keep their doors open—but we truly don’t know what tomorrow will bring.

We are approaching a breaking point.

This video shows the desperation on the ground—where hungry people, driven by survival, are resorting to attacking local vendors or soup kitchens in search of food.

Please continue to pray for our people in Gaza. But don’t stop there—advocate for them.

We are approaching a breaking point. Either the end of Palestinians in Gaza—or something else. Something better. Something just. But it won’t happen without you.

Note: I can’t include the videos in this but can share them with you if you’re interested.