World Food Day — October 16

World Food Day is a reminder that access to food is a basic human right, not a privilege. Yet in Palestine, especially in Gaza, this right is being deliberately denied.

While the world marks this day with calls to “leave no one behind,” Palestinians face an engineered famine. Over 99% of households in Gaza are food insecure, and millions are being starved under a brutal siege. Humanitarian convoys are blocked, farmland is bombed, bakeries are destroyed, and families are forced to survive on crumbs.

This is not a natural disaster; it’s a weapon of war. Hunger is being used to break the spirit of a people who refuse to surrender their land and dignity.

But the Palestinian people continue to resist. From farmers defending their olive groves to families sharing the little they have, their resilience is a powerful act of defiance.

On World Food Day, the world must not look away. Food must never be a weapon.

• Stand with Palestine.
• Demand an end to the siege.
• Defend the right to food and life.

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