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5/5 Elderly and injured bear the worst. A mother recovering from spinal surgery gets her portion; her hypertensive husband skips his. In Gaza, compassion has no calories. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaz…

5/5 Gaza’s Health Ministry lists 85 child and 42 adult malnutrition deaths in three weeks. UNICEF and WHO warn famine-like conditions are spreading, with daily starvation casualties now routine. cnn.com/2025/07/26/mid…

4/5 Nasser’s pediatric ward—designed for 8 beds—now admits about 60 acute malnutrition cases weekly. Clinicians say extreme wasting often triggers multi-organ failure before treatment can help. cnn.com/2025/07/26/mid…

3/5 Displaced from the north, the family sheltered in a tent near Khan Younis, joining militarized food queues. Since May, over 1,000 Palestinians have been shot at aid sites—many leave with nothing. cnn.com/2025/07/26/mid…

2/5 Dr. Ahmed al-Farah reported Zainab hadn’t fed since her special hypoallergenic formula—never in Gaza—ran out. Her mother, malnourished herself, managed only six weeks of breastfeeding. cnn.com/2025/07/26/mid…

1/5 A 5-month-old, Zainab Abu Halib, died July 25 at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis weighing under 2 kg—less than her 3 kg+ birth weight—after succumbing to severe starvation in her mother’s arms. cnn.com/2025/07/26/mid…

4/5 Hunger fogs minds. Sara describes forgetting words, choosing silence over conversation to save the scant energy she has left. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaz…

3/5 Banks lie in ruins, ATMs silent. To get cash, Gazans pay up to 45% fees on every shekel. The math of hunger now includes a surcharge. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaz…

2/5 A single meal plans out to half a day’s work: trawling bombed-out streets for one kilo of flour. When that flour’s gone, so is routine—replaced by desperation. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaz…

1/5 Today is Day 89 of Gaza’s “starvation war.” Families count each sunrise by whether they’ll eat at all. Siege fatigue isn’t a metaphor—it’s a calendar of emptiness. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaz…

7/7 Symbolic or not, the Knesset vote normalizes grave ethical breaches. It institutionalizes apartheid, shreds peace prospects, and exposes world leaders’ complicity unless serious action is taken—justice demands accountability. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

6/7 Despite global consensus condemning annexation, U.S. officials like Sen. Fetterman “haven’t followed it,” showing a chilling disregard for basic decency as mass displacement, home demolitions, and settler violence accelerate. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

5/7 Annexation destroys any realistic path to a two-state solution. The move is a ‘dangerous escalation’ that international law, UN experts, and the ICJ warn will ensure endless conflict, violence, and the denial of Palestinian self-determination. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

4/7 Apartheid, defined as domination and systematic oppression by one group over another, is now openly codified. Palestinians are denied civil rights and sovereignty, living under military rule while settlers enjoy legal privilege. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

3/7 Annexation violates the UN Charter and Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbid acquiring territory by force and prohibit demographic engineering. The ICJ ruled in 2024 that Israel’s actions breach binding international norms. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

2/7 The Knesset motion calls for imposing Israeli law over all settlements—over 500,000 settlers amid 3 million Palestinians. Settlements and forced displacement are condemned as war crimes by the UN and major human rights groups. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

1/7 Israel’s parliament just voted 71-13 to annex the West Bank, further entrenching apartheid and violating international law. Annexation entrenches two systems, strips Palestinians of rights, and shatters hope for peace. theintercept.com/2025/07/26/fet…

10/10 Gaza’s hospitals are rationing their last flour and fuel to feed staff. Without urgent food aid, the health system will starve before it collapses. cnn.com/2025/07/25/mid…

9/10 Humanitarian groups call for secure corridors to deliver food directly to hospitals. They say saving healthcare workers is as urgent as treating patients. cnn.com/2025/07/25/mid…

8/10 Local NGOs have set up ad-hoc field kitchens in hospital courtyards to feed staff. But limited ingredients and sporadic power make meals a daily gamble. cnn.com/2025/07/25/mid…