111 international humanitarian organizations have issued a resounding plea to the global community: open all land crossings into Gaza, restore full access to life-saving aid, and support a UN-led humanitarian response — alongside an immediate and enduring ceasefire.

As the Israeli occupation tightens its suffocating blockade on the besieged enclave, the humanitarian community has warned that Gaza’s two million residents are being systematically starved, displaced, and dehumanized in what many are calling a deliberate campaign of collective punishment.

“Every morning in Gaza, people ask the same question — will I get to eat today?” said one aid worker, highlighting the terrifying uncertainty that now defines daily life under siege.

The statement paints a harrowing picture of Gaza's collapse. Aid workers — once the last line of defense — now stand in food lines themselves, risking death under Israeli fire just to feed their own families. Many have collapsed from dehydration, while others report the rapid physical decline of colleagues due to lack of food, clean water, fuel, and medical care.

The human toll is staggering. According to United Nations data cited in the statement, as of July 13, at least 875 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access food, including 201 on so-called “safe” aid routes. Countless others have been maimed or traumatized in brutal attacks on food distribution centers — attacks the international organizations have described as “near-daily massacres.”

The Israeli regime, which has forcibly displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians — herding them into shrinking and uninhabitable pockets of southern Gaza — issued its latest mass evacuation order on July 20. Palestinians are now confined to less than 12 percent of Gaza's territory, enduring starvation, constant bombardment, and a total collapse of sanitation and healthcare infrastructure.

“Children are telling their parents they want to go to heaven — because at least there’s food there,” said a Gaza-based mental health worker.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the current conditions as “unsustainable” and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon is a war crime under international law. Despite massive stocks of aid sitting undelivered — both inside and just outside Gaza’s borders — access is being systematically denied by Israeli authorities through arbitrary restrictions, perpetual delays, and a policy of calculated fragmentation.

“These obstacles have created chaos, hunger, and death,” the joint statement declares.

On average, only 28 aid trucks enter Gaza per day — a minuscule fraction of what is needed for the 2.2 million people enduring forced famine and dehydration. Entire families, particularly children and the elderly, are collapsing in the streets. Outbreaks of diarrhea and infections are rampant. Medical professionals are now reporting unprecedented levels of acute malnutrition and psychological trauma, warning of a generation scarred by man-made suffering.

The humanitarian groups flatly reject claims that the UN-led aid response has failed. Rather, they point the finger squarely at Israel and its backers: “It hasn’t failed — it has been deliberately obstructed,” the statement asserts. “We have the means and capacity to deliver life-saving aid. What we lack is access — blocked by occupation forces, even to our own starving staff.”

The statement also dismissed recent announcements by Israel and the European Union regarding expanded humanitarian access as hollow propaganda meant to deflect global outrage.

“These promises of ‘progress’ ring hollow in the absence of real change. Every day without sustained aid flow means more deaths — from preventable disease, from starvation, from shattered hope.”

Beyond the physical suffering, the groups describe the Israeli-led siege as a form of psychological warfare — a cycle of false hope and despair that continues to torment an already exhausted people.

“This isn’t just a physical ordeal — it’s psychological torture,” the statement warned.

As the world watches in silence — or worse, with complicity — humanitarian organizations are raising the alarm once again: the people of Gaza are being starved, displaced, and slaughtered in plain sight. The time to act is now. (ILKHA)