🟥 This is baby Zainab. She was starved to death by Israel and the United States. We now have the video of her after she died.

She was alive the last time we saw her. Now she’s gone — a skeleton in a blanket. This is what Israel and America are doing to babies.

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The last time we saw baby Zainab, she was still alive.

Barely. Her little body was shriveled. She wasn’t crying — she didn’t even have the strength. Her eyes were tired. Her skin was thin. Her ribs were visible. But she was breathing. She was holding on.

Today, I saw the new video. It was filmed by the courageous Palestinian journalist Abdallah Alattar — one of many documenting the horror Israel and the United States want hidden. And in this video, Zainab is gone.

I don’t mean metaphorically. I don’t mean symbolically. I mean her body is still, wrapped in fabric, her bones visibly poking through her skin. Her belly extended.

She is a skeleton. A baby. A real child. Starved to death.

This was not an accident.
This was not collateral damage.
This was not an unfortunate side effect of war.

This was murder.


🏴 Gaza’s babies aren’t dying. They’re being starved to death.

Every time I write one of these posts, I ask myself: What else can I possibly say? How many more children do I have to introduce you to before the world says, “Enough”?

But today, I’m not here to introduce you to a new baby.

I’m here to say goodbye to one we already knew.
One we already saw.
One we already tried to help.
And one who is now dead.

Her name was Zainab.
She died not because food didn’t exist, but because Israel and the United States blocked it.

Outside of Gaza, enough food to feed millions has been sitting in trucks for months. We now know from both the New York Times and Reuters that there is no evidence Hamas was stealing aid. That was the excuse Israel gave for starving the people — and it was a lie.

An internal U.S. analysis confirmed: “It found ‘no reports alleging Hamas’ benefited from U.S.-funded supplies.” Meanwhile, that same report blamed at least 44 aid disruptions on Israeli military actions — including bombings and forced route changes. Source

So now the lie is exposed. But Zainab is gone.


🔥 This isn’t war. It’s a crime. A genocide. And Zainab is the evidence.

In the past few days, we’ve published stories about:

  • An Israeli soldier who admitted his unit burned over 1,000 trucks of food aid and buried the evidence in the sand

  • A former U.S. Green Beret who went on BBC and said: “In my entire career I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population — an unarmed, starving population.”

  • A report confirming that over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed at or near aid distribution points — many of them by Israeli gunfire

  • And now this: the death of baby Zainab, captured on film by one of the few brave journalists still alive in Gaza

How much more proof does the world need?

How many videos of starving children, of skeletal bodies, of babies weighing less than 10 pounds — how many more of these have to be seen before the world admits what this is?

This is a genocide. And starvation is one of its weapons.


🤬 Don’t tell me Israel is “defending itself.”

Don’t talk to me about Hamas.
Don’t talk to me about tunnels.
Don’t talk to me about October 7.
We’re talking about a baby.
We’re talking about a girl named Zainab.
We’re talking about the slow, deliberate starvation of an infant.

Not by Hamas. Not by her family.
But by governments — Israel and the United States — that blocked the food, dismantled the UN aid system, installed a military-run fake humanitarian operation, and then let babies die while blaming the people being starved.

If that’s not evil, what is?


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And the governments that starved her.

With grief, fury, and faith,

Shaun