Gaza: The world watches, the world remains silent, the world is complicit

There are figures that should bring everything to a halt. Paralyze everything. Call everything into question. Here they are. Since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7, 2023, more than 72,000 Palestinians have lost their lives, including 18,592 children and approximately 12,400 women. About 11,000 people are still missing under the rubble. More than 72,000 dead. In a territory the size of a city. Sadanews

And it’s not just the war that’s killing people. It’s systematic starvation. In August 2025, famine was officially declared in the city of Gaza. As of October 11, 463 Palestinians, including 157 children, had died of malnutrition. Children starving to death in 2025, in full view of the world’s cameras. Human Rights Watch

Even after a ceasefire went into effect on October 10, 2025, the enclave continued to be bombed repeatedly, killing at least 786 more people, including 204 children. A ceasefire that stops nothing. A truce that offers no respite. UNICEF

Meanwhile, the major powers negotiate, diplomats meet, and UN resolutions pile up to no avail. More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, according to UN Women. Thirty-eight thousand women and girls. A number we utter and then forget all too quickly. United Nations in Europe

History will judge this silence. It will judge the governments that supplied the weapons, the media that downplayed the situation, and the public that looked the other way. Gaza is not a distant crisis. It is a mirror of what our civilization is willing to tolerate. And what that mirror reflects should burn our eyes.