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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
Chard deNiord: Grief is the River with a Foreign Name
Grief is the river with a foreign name
that floods your heart, pulling you in
with a musical force you can’t resist
