Rome, 25 August (LaPresse) – "On 20 August 2025, Israeli forces stormed Gaza City, where nearly one million displaced civilians had sought refuge, many already starving. Two days later, on 22 August, the United Nations declared a famine. By then, the damage was done: 273 people had already died of starvation, including 112 children. The declaration was not a warning, but a sad confirmation of what humanitarian organisations have been saying for months: the people of Gaza have long endured a deliberate descent into starvation. This is not a tragic accident. It is the result of calculated choices. A population stripped of shelter, sustenance and security has been left to die before the eyes of the world.‘ This is stated in a note from Caritas Internationalis. ’This is not war,‘ it continues. ’It is the systematic destruction of civilian life. The siege of Gaza has become a machine of annihilation, sustained by impunity and the silence, or complicity, of powerful nations. The famine here is not a natural disaster, but the result of a deliberate strategy: blocking aid, bombing food convoys, destroying infrastructure and denying basic needs. Caritas Internationalis bears witness to this horror. Civilians, mostly children and women, are being starved, bombed and wiped out. Governments, companies and influential multinationals have allowed this catastrophe to happen through military support, financial aid and diplomatic cover. Their silence is not neutrality, it is approval.