The images are among the most harrowing I’ve ever encountered—babies and young children, their bodies wasting away, starving as a direct result of the Israeli military regime’s blockade on food. This is not just a crisis; it is a deliberate act of deprivation, and it is happening in real time.
As an #Irish person, this evokes a deep, visceral anger. Our own history is marked by the scars of a famine that was not an accident, but a calculated policy of neglect and oppression by the #British. 1)