Gaza: Starving the Innocent, Starving the Conscience of Humanity : Sudha S. Reddy, Katoikos World

Article shared by Fouad Kronfol

Here is another excellent article by Subha Reddy - this one about starving children in Gaza.

It is the kind of articles that should be coming out of UNICEF top managers at Hq, RO and country levels. Most of what we have seen so far has been mediocre , politically correct and bereft of OOMPH….except for Jim Elder.This one should be posted and widely circulated…

Fouad


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Summary
This powerful op-ed lays bare the horrors unfolding in Gaza as famine becomes a deliberate weapon. Citing a UN warning that “fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza,” the author abandons euphemism, declaring the starvation campaign to be genocidal. Reddy, a humanitarian worker and mother, refuses to remain a distant observer. She calls it genocide—“starvation is its chosen weapon”—and lambasts the world’s complacency as babies, families, and entire communities are left to virtually die from systematic deprivation.

Quotes


“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025


“This is not a crisis. This is not collateral damage. This is genocide and starvation is its chosen weapon.”

The piece is both moral indictment and personal reckoning—highlighting that the engineered deprivation of food, clean water, medicine, and power is not an unfortunate consequence of war, but a deliberate strategy.

Suggested image: A close-up of a severely malnourished infant in Gaza, ideally in a clinical or aid-distribution setting to humanize the staggering UN statistic and evoke the urgency Reddy demands.