Starvation
Updated: Aug 8, 2026
Starvation
Meirav Trachtman Cohen
Who wants to play the Flour Game?
In Gaza this is not a game.
Soon enough there will no longer be kids in Gaza.
Forget about territorial waters.
Just give them water to drink.
Unlike sandbags, sacks of flour don’t protect from death.
Every day, dozens of Gazans are killed by the IDF while trying to bring food to their families.
The army, fearing gatherings, reports that drones targeted "suspects."
Suspects of what? Of wanting to live?
Mom, what’s for lunch? I’m starving. Actually, I’m not hungry. It doesn’t taste good. I don’t want schnitzel again. Can we order? What’s for dessert?”
In Gaza, the death toll has already crossed 60,000.
“Here in Gaza, no one asks anymore how many were killed, but who survived today, who managed to get a loaf of bread, and who had milk to give their baby.”
The Holocaust is the catastrophe of the Jewish people: the greatest genocide in human history, beginning in 1933 and ending in 1945. The killing stopped, but the struggle of those who survived lasted their entire lives and passed down through generations.
The Nakba is the catastrophe of the Palestinian people: an ongoing nightmare, growing worse with every passing day, unveiling horrors that echo chilling memories of the Holocaust that we all carry.
The Nakba is first and foremost the disaster of the Palestinian people. But it is also our tragedy.
Our realization of our own inhumanity in this era will continue to haunt and challenge generations to come.
