“No one dies of hunger” they said

From: “No one dies of hunger”

To: “Everyone will die of hunger.

Hunger has always been part of life here. There’s an old saying: “No one dies of hunger”; meant to comfort the poor, to give them hope.

But that promise was a lie, and now that lie is dead. The cruel truth that's allowed to happen today? Everyone is dying of hunger!

I can’t believe the world is still letting this happen. For what, and to get us where exactly? And until when?

What the hell justifies starving children to death?

For what? Can anyone even explain it to me?

To break the resistance? Or the resilience? Or both? Is it because the world agreed we’re nothing but human animals? Or is it just to crush every last hope in our hearts, and every last trace of dignity or humanity left in our ribs?

Is that the plan? To starve more children?

To torture a million of them? To crush us? to force us to our knees? Is that what will bring them peace? Is denying babies milk… defending anyone? Are they safer now, as they behead even more?

What the hell are the leaders of this world doing? Where are they?

Do they have children? Families? Do they care about them? Do they care about any human life at all?

Is that it?

Two million people are being starved to death; and the world just feels sorry?

Why does the world think “sorry” is enough?

That it’s all we ever needed?

And why are most people still silent?

Still pretending we can survive more?

What could possibly be more than this?

If this isn’t the end of the world, then what is?

Because it’s certainly not the end of a people who have lived under occupation for a hundred years. So why is this destroying only us? Why hasn’t it shaken the world to its core?

The U.S. of terrorism, has the audacity to claim it’s the only country providing food aid to Gaza;

while it is, and has always been, the one responsible for killing and wounding thousands of starving people at its so-called “humanitarian points,”

and for the deaths of tens of thousands, with countless more still unaccounted for.

We were never treated as humans; just numbers.

Until the U.S. decided we weren’t even that.

Now we’re flesh in body bags,

bones left for starving dogs.

Babies dying alone in incubators,

babies fading, dying slowly of hunger, as their families watch, helpless.

What more does the U.S. have in mind for us?

All because, time and again since 1948, the U.S. has used its veto to deny us our right to freedom, and flour. Why?

The world has truly, unbelievably, fucking failed us. And we never deserved any of this.

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