🕊️ Adel Madi Was Starved to Death in Gaza Today. He Was 27 Years Old.
His ribs and shoulder blades were pressing through his skin. His body didn’t just give up — it was stripped bare, cell by cell, for months. This was deliberate. And now some are trying to excuse it.
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Adel Madi died today in Gaza. He was 27 years old.
He died in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. Not from a bomb.
Not from a missile.
But from something slower. Crueler.
He was starved to death.
I say those words carefully. It was a crime with a perpetrator.
Adel didn’t die overnight.
Starving someone to death takes weeks, even months.
It takes precision — the systematic denial of food, protein, medicine, and basic care.
When I look at his photos — and I will share them below, so the world cannot deny what was done — I see a body collapsed under the weight of hunger. His shoulder blades and ribs are pressing through skin. His legs look like bone wrapped in tissue. His eyes are sunken. His chest hollowed.
This is what the U.S. and Israel have done to Gaza.
This is what a man looks like after he’s been starved to death.
⚠️ Content Note: The photo below shows the body of Adel Madi, age 27, who was starved to death in Gaza. It is disturbing. It is real. It is evidence.
📸 Photographed by Palestinian journalist Amro Taishan.
He died in a hospital stripped of every basic resource.
There was no protein left in his muscles.
No strength left in his gut.
No antibiotics. No IV nutrition. No therapeutic food.
No pain relief. No silence. No peace.
Just a young man, dying by design — one cell at a time.
His death is not a statistic.
It is proof.
Proof of a siege.
Proof of starvation as a weapon.
Proof that this genocide isn’t just about bombs.
It’s about slow, policy-driven destruction of the human body.
And now some are trying to excuse it.
In one of the most obscene moments I’ve seen in this genocide, the New York Times recently tried to soften the crime of starvation by implying that many of those dying had pre-existing conditions.
As if diabetes or chronic illness justifies being starved.
As if being vulnerable makes your death more acceptable.
Let me say this clearly:
Nobody in Gaza starved to death before this genocide.
Not one.
Gaza had hospitals. Food systems. Clinics. U.N. relief. Doctors. Pediatric wards.
They survived siege after siege — because food was getting in.
But that stopped.
Israel closed the gates. The U.S. backed it.
And now the New York Times is telling us to look away — because maybe the people dying were already weak.
But here’s what they don’t say:
In every famine, people with pre-existing conditions are the first to die.
That’s not an excuse — that’s an indictment.
It proves how deep the starvation has gone.
It proves how long this has been happening.
It proves that this is intentional.
Don’t look away from his body. That’s the point.
Adel Madi’s body is not just a corpse.
It’s a case file.
It’s a witness.
It’s a testimony to the crime of starvation.
And no amount of Times reporting, White House hedging, or Israeli press releases can hide it.
This is what genocide looks like.
May Allah have mercy on Adel.
May his name be known.
May his death be remembered.
May his body be seen — not as shame, but as evidence.
And may those who did this be held to account.
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I am sorry to force these images into your lives, truly, but they must be seen.
Tragic. These photos should be shared prior to the vote on funding these war crimes.