She died of hunger!

The ink on Tuesday's article had barely dried when my interlocutor called to inform me, in a fit of bitter sobbing, of the death of his sister, Ju'ana. She was lying in a hospital in Gaza City, amid a severe shortage of medicine and food.

Like that dearly departed, there are hundreds of patients waiting in lines to die of starvation in hospitals on the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, UN reports indicate that the Gaza Strip is being subjected to a relentless, round-the-clock process of erasure and genocide, in which the lives of children, the elderly, mothers, and fathers are being lost, sometimes by being run over by "Gideon's vehicles" and other times by the bullets of "inhumane Gaza," which preys on the starving in its set traps. Press reports have also revealed that members of this institution deliberately commit their crimes against the starving, as if they were targets in a shooting range.

Those who didn't die of hunger or bullets died from a lack of sugar (one kilo cost 350 shekels), which is what the sick people in the tents need when they faint. A few days ago, an old woman died in one of the tents after suffering a blood sugar attack. Her children and grandchildren were unable to save her, after they started looking for a spoonful of sugar among the displaced people, but they didn't find it before she breathed her last.

Stories of daily death are heartbreaking, and even more tragic, they dull feelings and make consciences turn a blind eye to the daily toll of martyrs and wounded, who are killed in tents, under the rubble, and in front of food pantries.

Stop the killing now... Gaza is dying of hunger!