For over five months, the Israeli occupation's siege has suffocated the Gaza Strip, leaving its population in a stark confrontation with hunger, disease, and a slow death. The lives of civilians inside their homes, in camps, and in shelters have transformed into a harsh journey in search of a morsel of food and a dose of medicine.

The tragedy is manifested in its most horrific forms in nursing homes and displacement camps, where the elderly, children, the sick, and pregnant women face a suffocating shortage of food and medicine. This is amid warnings from doctors that malnutrition and the absence of healthcare have led to the exacerbation of chronic diseases.

With the ongoing brutal siege and the prevention of humanitarian aid, human rights organizations, including the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, have documented hundreds of deaths among the displaced in tents due to starvation and lack of treatment. These cases are often classified as "natural deaths" due to the lack of accurate registration mechanisms under the conditions of war and siege.

What is happening in Gaza is a human tragedy that places the international community before a historical responsibility to act immediately to break the siege and allow humanitarian aid in before it turns into a mass grave.