They stand for hours in the sun outside the few bakeries still open in Gaza. Children cling to their parents, hoping there will still be bread when they reach the front. Flour is running out, vegetables that make it in cost too much, and even when trucks arrive the lines remain. Bread should not feel like a luxury. #Gaza

A young child in Gaza cries in the crush of people desperate for food. No child should have to fight for a single meal. This is what the people of Gaza are living through. Their suffering is real and relentless. The world must demand an end to the blockade and real humanitarian access. The child’s tears are a call we cannot ignore.

In Gaza, kids scrape the bottoms of big cooking pots for whatever scraps are left behind. They clutch their own small empty pots in one hand while reaching with the other to grab the last bits of food. This is daily life for children after years of blockade, destruction, and restricted aid. Families have almost nothing. Hot meals are cut, commercial goods face limits, and prices are out of reach. Malnutrition is hitting the youngest hardest—thousands treated every month, stunting rising, parents going without so their children can eat something, anything. No child should have to fight over leftover scraps. End the restrictions. Open the crossings. Stop the collective punishment. Free Palestine.