FAMINE IN GAZA: fact or fake?
Is there really a famine in Gaza or is it, as Israel’s Foreign Ministry called it, “fabricated” and “tailor-made to fit Hamas’s fake campaign?” Is it fact or fake?
This article is not written to persuade those who have already chosen disbelief. It is not a courtroom defense. It is a candle held against the shadows—an attempt to shed light on the process of why and what constitutes a famine. To provide a deeper clarity, and to stir a deeper, more courageous empathy. Not the kind that feels sorry from afar, but the kind that dares to come close. The kind that asks, not “Is this true?” but “What does love require of me now?”
GAZA: when opinions roar, compassion whispers
The question echoing in my heart this morning is painfully simple: How did we get here? How did we, as followers of Christ, become more obsessed with being right than with being compassionate? How did we move from weeping over starving children to arguing about who’s to blame for their suffering? How—in God’s name—did this happen?
FAMINE IN GAZA: CONNECTED EXTREMES IN A DISCONNECTED WORLD
The IPC’s global hunger monitor says Gaza has already surpassed the first two criteria that define a famine- food shortage and malnutrition – and mass death will begin “imminently” without an immediate aid surge. But the global tragedy we are witnessing is not only because of war, hatred and extremism. The challenge is our connected extremes in a disconnected world.