This sweet little boy, Yahya Al-Najjar, should be alive, well, happy, and whole in his mother’s arms. Instead, he literally starved to death at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis because Gaza has no milk, no baby formula, or any basic sustenance needed for infants to survive. It’s an abomination.
I hate the State of Israel, but under no circumstance, even today, would I even consider starving Israeli babies, or any babies to death?
WHO IN THE HELL DOES SUCH A THING?
The forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza has boiled out of control today. Men, women, boys, and girls are literally passing out, they are delirious, they are having extreme pain, and their bodies are failing because they don’t have even the minimum level of nutrition necessary to survive. It’s pretty much the only thing anyone in Gaza is even talking about because it’s the only thing you can even think about.
But here is the question I want you to consider…
Why don’t you see this video of Baby Yahya on CNN or BBC? Why isn’t his story being told in The NY Times or The Washington Post?
Why do you have to go to an independent news outlet to actually see what Israel and the United States are doing to people?
Under international law — the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and even the U.N. Charter — what’s happening in Gaza isn’t just immoral.
It’s a war crime.
Article 54 of the Fourth Geneva Convention forbids the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.
Article 8 of the Rome Statute makes “intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” a prosecutable war crime.
And collective punishment — punishing an entire population for the actions of a few — is explicitly prohibited under Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions.
Gaza is under total siege. That means:
No food in
No fuel in
No medicine in
No baby formula in
No way out
Baby Yahya wasn’t collateral damage.
He wasn’t caught in the crossfire.
He was targeted by policy.
And if the names were reversed — if an Israeli baby had starved to death under a blockade enforced by Palestinians — it would lead global headlines for months.
But Yahya?
You don’t see him on CNN. Or BBC. Or the New York Times.
Because to them, Palestinian life is still treated as disposable.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Shaun King is one of the most followed and shared activists and journalists in the world. Hailed by Time Magazine as “1 of the 25 most influential people in the world on the Internet,” Shaun is most known for fighting against police brutality and mass incarceration in the United States, the genocide of the Palestinian people, and oppression around the world. Devout Muslims, Shaun and his wife of 25 years, Dr. Rai King, are proud parents of five wonderful children.
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