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Ma Yongbo: On the Farm in the North  

It is quiet all around, only the two of us—
no red flags, no father, no yellow military uniforms.
The army seems to have withdrawn,
leaving us there, forgotten.

March 7, 2026 · 18 Comments

Richard Krawiec: Facing it at the Halal Market

All the mothers and children, who were having such a hard time, the children, it wasn’t fair, who needed SNAP and how the store wanted to serve them too, but they hadn’t received approval yet.

November 14, 2025 · 18 Comments

Carine Topal: The Terrible Years   

Our son sits on a yellow bench bloodied
in the square, waving to a soldier. It is to you he says goodbye.
Now we must pack our bag of bread, head to toe in soot,
ready to eat anything.

October 7, 2025 · 17 Comments

John Guzlowski: Hope Is Our Mother

A question I get often about my Polish parents is what kept them going during the war and after the war.

September 14, 2025 · 18 Comments

Video: The Medallion

In Ruth Hunduma’s short documentary “The Medallion,” a mother’s memories serve as a window to a history of genocide and survival in Ethiopia.

September 5, 2025 · 3 Comments

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi: Those With Chronic Illness in Gaza Say They’re Denied a Bare Minimum to Survive

This is an engineered famine — deliberate starvation under Israeli siege: Markets are empty. Aid trucks are blocked. Weeds are being boiled for soup.

September 2, 2025 · 5 Comments

John Guzlowski: Hunger

He ate what would kill a man
in the normal course of his life:
leather buttons, cloth caps, anything
small enough to get into his mouth.
He ate roots. He ate newspaper.

August 22, 2025 · 19 Comments

Brett Wilkins | Israel Waging ‘Deliberate Campaign of Starvation’ in Gaza, reports Amnesty International

Israel “is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being, and social fabric of Palestinian life,” Amnesty said. 

August 20, 2025 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: Until Our Last Breath

In the last 22 months, the Israeli military has killed over 230 journalists, including multiple ones from Al Jazeera.

August 14, 2025 · 6 Comments

Jessica Corbett: ‘The Hunger Games of Gaza’ | IDF Kills 70+ Palestinians Trying to Get Food Aid

“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled.

June 18, 2025 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: ​Let Them Die Alone, and Hungry

The new “conquering of Gaza” formalizes Israel’s plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into “sanitized” Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population “for its own protection.”

May 8, 2025 · 14 Comments

Julia Conley: ‘Genocide in Action’ as 60-Day Blockade Plunges Gaza Into Mass Starvation

The two-month-long siege is a “clear and calculated effort to collectively punish over two million civilians and to make Gaza unlivable.”

May 3, 2025 · 8 Comments

Zeina Azzam: Alive in Gaza

Ahmed spends hours each day trying to find potable water, wood to make a fire, anything for his family to eat. 

October 10, 2024 · 8 Comments

Abby Zimet: Biden=Genocide

It is a cruel irony to drop food when at the same time the U.S. is funding the dropping of bombs.

March 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

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