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The tragedy in Gaza continues relentlessly, while the world turns a deaf ear to the cries of the elderly, who are perishing from hunger and disease in broad daylight.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has documented the deaths of more than 1,200 elderly individuals in the Gaza Strip as a result of starvation and the denial of medical care—policies that have sharply intensified in the final days of the Israeli siege.
The organization describes this reality as the deadly use of hunger and disease as weapons of war against unarmed civilians.
Hundreds of elderly people arrive daily at hospitals in heartbreaking conditions of severe exhaustion, desperately seeking medical nutritional fluids essential for survival. With the severe shortage of medical supplies, the number of deaths continues to rise silently.
The Monitor’s report documented dozens of elderly deaths in displacement tents, where they are often registered as natural deaths, although the true cause is starvation or lack of treatment.
The organization states that these policies amount to systematic war crimes being committed in full view of the international community.
Gaza is currently experiencing an almost complete collapse of basic services, placing the humanitarian crisis in the Strip at its worst stage ever, according to the Monitor.
Amid this dire reality, the Monitor calls on the international community to intervene urgently to break the siege and establish humanitarian corridors that ensure the delivery of food and medical aid to the elderly and other vulnerable groups.
Hunger and the slow death of civilians cannot be dismissed as mere collateral damage of conflict—they are part of a systematic Israeli policy targeting the most vulnerable to exert political and military pressure, the Monitor asserts.
As the crisis worsens, the lives of the elderly continue to be lost in silence, while the world remains either helpless or willfully indifferent.
Allowing this situation to persist without accountability is a stain on the conscience of humanity—and demands urgent action to restore the right to life and dignity for the most vulnerable.
