
️BREAKING: Government Media Office:
“84 days of engineering the starvation of Gaza’s civilians: the "israeli" occupation continues to close all crossings, control humanitarian aid, and perpetrate a systematic genocide
For the 84th consecutive day, the "israeli" occupation maintains a suffocating, airtight siege on the Gaza Strip by completely closing every crossing and enforcing a deliberate, collective-starvation policy that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity under international law. Simultaneously, it presses on with a systematic genocide and unrelenting daily killings.
Despite international and human-rights appeals, the occupation blocks the entry of humanitarian and food aid and deliberately cuts off fuel deliveries, bringing vital facilities—foremost among them hospitals and bakeries essential for civilians’ survival—to near total shutdown.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of relief and humanitarian supplies have piled up abroad and begun to spoil because they have been barred from entering Gaza for many months, while the population endures escalating famine and an extremely grave humanitarian situation.
Over these 84 days of total closure, at least 46,200 truckloads of aid and fuel should have reached Gaza to meet residents’ minimum needs. Yet in recent days the occupation has promoted a misleading narrative claiming it "allows" aid in, whereas the reality shows only about 100 trucks—less than 1 percent of basic requirements—have entered. Those few trucks carried limited quantities of medicine and flour to a handful of bakeries, while the occupation still prevents more than 90 percent of Gaza’s bakeries from operating. This starkly exposes the occupation’s policy of "starvation engineering," whereby it deliberately controls the flow and distribution of food, deepening the catastrophe facing more than two million civilians in Gaza.
The occupation also imposes tight restrictions on the movements of these "few trucks," forcing them onto dangerous routes monitored by its drones, leaving them vulnerable to looting by armed groups—some operating with the occupation’s clear connivance. At the same time, it denies the trucks protection and has directly targeted aid-security teams, most recently bombing six personnel and killing them while they performed their humanitarian duty.
In a further escalation, the occupation compels international humanitarian organizations not to distribute aid directly to citizens, as those organizations themselves have stated, intensifying hunger among the most vulnerable—especially women, children, and the sick—amid this genocide and systematic starvation.
Direct consequences recorded over the 80 days since the crossings were closed:
• 58 deaths due to malnutrition.
• 242 deaths from shortages of food and medicine, most of them elderly.
• 26 kidney patients lost their lives for lack of dietary and medical care.
• More than 300 miscarriages among pregnant women because of severe nutrient deficiencies.
We condemn in the strongest terms the occupation’s criminal policies of closing crossings, imposing siege, and executing a policy of starvation—then engineering that starvation—against civilians, children, and the vulnerable.
We hold the "israeli" occupation and the states complicit in this genocide fully responsible for these heinous crimes carried out in full view of the world.
We call on the international community and humanitarian organizations to shoulder their moral and legal obligations, intervene immediately and urgently to rescue Gaza’s civilians from catastrophic famine, and pressure the occupation to open the crossings, allow humanitarian aid to enter in sufficient quantities without delay, and stop the silent—yet deafening—genocide it is committing through starvation and daily killings.
Government Media Office
Gaza Strip – Palestine
Saturday, 24 May 2025”
Mike