🟥 He’s 10 years old. He weighs 19 pounds. That's the average weight of a 9 month old baby.

His name is Nafez. And he’s being starved to death by design.

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🟥 He’s 10. He weighs 19 pounds.

His name is Nafez Mohammed Nasser.
And he is being starved to death — not by nature, but by policy.

Nafez is a 10-year-old child in Gaza.
And this week, his weight has dropped to just 9 kilograms19.8 pounds.

That’s the average weight of a 9-month-old baby.

This is not a statistic.
This is a boy. A son. A soul.
Being slowly erased.


📉 No disease. Just hunger.

Nafez suffers from a disability, severe malnutrition, and a collapsing health condition.
He has now been moved between multiple hospitals across Gaza.
Still, he has received no effective treatment.

Doctors have not identified any disease — because there isn’t one. He just needs specialized food and it’s currently illegal for what he needs to enter Gaza. Period.

It’s starvation.
It’s isolation.
It’s a complete siege — maintained and funded by the governments of Israel and the United States.


🆘 His family is begging the world to act

They’ve issued an urgent plea to humanitarian and international organizations:

Please evacuate him.
Please treat him abroad.
Please save his life.

But no aid is coming.
And no permission has been granted.


Where is the world?

  • Where are the human rights agencies?

  • Where are the leaders who talk about freedom and dignity?

  • Where are the media outlets that claim objectivity?

Why is it that when a child is Palestinian, the world forgets how to feel?


⚖️ This is genocide by starvation

It’s not a famine.
It’s not drought.
It’s not mismanagement.

It is deliberate starvation.

This is a war crime.
And Nafez is the evidence.


📸 This video was filmed by the brave Palestinian journalist Mostafa Salah.
He risked his life to bring this truth to the world.

Let us not waste it.


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