Stop starving Gaza!

Almost beyond belief, the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine has intensified to an even greater degree of brutality.

The Resistance News Network published a Gaza Update Summary (July 16 – 19, 2025): “The past four days have been defined by a dual crisis of escalating IOF massacres and catastrophic, deepening famine.” 

On Wednesday, July 16, Palestinian civilians were lured to U.S. aid distribution centers throughout Gaza, which the IOF then bombed and gassed. The IOF also bombed refugee shelters, a school in Bureij, and a church in Gaza City.

The following days were more of the same — massacres of starving families awaiting aid, babies and children dying of malnutrition, people collapsing of hunger in the streets. At the same time, fleets of trucks full of aid wait at Rafah Crossing. 

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship “Handala,” carrying only unarmed civilians (including labor leader Chris Smalls) and food, medicine, and baby formula, is on its way to Gaza’s shores. Israel stopped the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s first ship, the Madleen, in June 2025.

While most media outlets ignored the massacres at aid distribution sites, even mainstream bourgeois press could not conceal the famine unfolding in Gaza — likely compelled by damning UNRWA and WHO reports, along with harrowing eyewitness testimonies. Even The Times of Israel begrudgingly acknowledged it with the headline: ‘Israel blames UN for Gaza aid shortage, says Hamas exploiting famine claims at talks.’ The same tired propaganda, but this time, their lies had run up against undeniable reality.

The people respond

On July 20, the united Palestinian resistance called for action. The Palestinian Youth Movement called for an international day of action to Stop Starving Gaza on July 22.  

In Baltimore, on July 22, the People’s Power Assembly joined with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Black Alliance for Peace to hold an emergency demonstration to denounce the U.S.’s primary role in the genocide.

Then, on July 24, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Maryland Action Network, Jewish Voices for Peace, and the Baltimore Rapid Response Network called an emergency rally, demanding: “Let Gaza Live!”