Gaza has collapsed. It is beset by famine and starvation. Widespread unavailability of fuel is exacerbating the collapse of infrastructure and systems essential to preserve life. Gaza is in large parts no longer habitable.

I’m so sick of articles saying it’s on “the edge of collapse” or “teetering on famine” or “soon to be uninhabitable”.

It happened. It’s a killing field. All life in Gaza is now persisting in spite of efforts to extinguish it. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk. The elderly die for lack of basic 20th century medicines. No food can grow and what water there is is tainted and unsafe to drink. Hospitals are barely more thanpiles of rubble at which the doctors who’ve not yet been assassinated tearfully go to provide insufficient care to the dying on sites that were once known as houses of modern medicine.

We are watching a ruthless genocide and no humanitarian need can be fulfilled without ending the brutal blockade intended to kill all living on this land. And this is not a “looming” or “imminent” risk, it’s reality.