Letter to Editors Demanding Media Cover Starvation of Gaza

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To the editors at [PUBLICATION],

It is long past time to make the forced starvation of two million people in Gaza a front-page story. For more than a year, the Israeli Occupation Forces, supported by the United States, have imposed a complete siege on Gaza from air, land, and sea. They have blocked humanitarian aid from reaching a starving population while targeting water wells and desalination plants across the Strip. Palestinians are collapsing from hunger and thirst. Aid distribution centers are death traps where Israeli soldiers target the hungry with snipers and drones. All the while, 87% of Gaza is under evacuation orders and the IOF has leveled or damaged 70% of the Strip’s buildings through its bombing campaign. 

This email is not an appeal, it is a demand: Report truthfully on the Israeli-imposed starvation campaign in Gaza. Give this story the resources and space it deserves. Outline for your readers the perpetrators of this policy of mass death. Explain that between 25% and 90% of Gaza's population, depending on the source and the estimate, has entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which can cause irreversible organ damage. This means that even if food becomes available in the future, health cannot be restored.

American taxpayers are bankrolling a war in which Israel has adopted starvation as a primary weapon, yet outlets like yours are either silent or dishonest about the devastating facts on the ground. We refuse to wait for your publication's retrospective on this genocide: Palestinians in Gaza are dying today, as you read these words. If, as your mission statement suggests, you are invested in reportage that covers the most important stories of the moment, then you are not only failing your readers but committing journalistic malpractice, with fatal implications for millions of people in Gaza.

As a leading English-language news platform, choosing to omit this story from the front pages of your publication implicates you in the mass deaths of Palestinians in Gaza  entering their 22nd month of unrelenting attacks. Do your jobs.

Signed,