We Must Reject the Normalization of Genocide in Gaza

When the world looks away, genocide advances.

The UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), backed by agencies such as FAO, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO, has officially declared famine in Gaza City and its environs. Over half a million people—approximately 514,000—are now suffering under catastrophic food insecurity, with that number projected to rise to 641,000 by September. 
Medical professionals on the ground describe horrifying scenes: children and wounded people with protruding ribs and bony limbs, the unmistakable signs of severe malnutrition Hospitals report rising hunger-related deaths, and experts warn of the collapse of survival systems.

This is not the result of a natural disaster—it is a man-made genocide. Gaza's food system has been systematically dismantled through blockade and military plans that devastate agricultural and processing infrastructure. The result? A famine that could be the most intense since World War II—unfolding in real time, not during a dark chapter of history books.

Normalizing this is a moral catastrophe. Our shared humanity is undermined when we accept images of starving children as a daily headline. When we become numb, we become complicit.

Every day, the world is confronted with images of children in Gaza who have been starved, bombed, or executed. And every day, the world becomes a little more numb. The slow normalization of massacres is one of the most dangerous crimes of our time.

What is happening in Gaza is not a natural disaster, nor an unavoidable tragedy. It is a genocide. Families are being wiped out, children are being assassinated in plain sight, and entire communities are being deliberately starved. The ongoing famine is not accidental — it is the result of a political decision to weaponize hunger against a civilian population.

As human beings, we cannot allow ourselves to “get used to it.” To scroll past images of emaciated children as if they were just another headline. To hear of mass killings and shrug because it has become “normal.” Normalizing genocide anywhere threatens the humanity of all people everywhere.