Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Nowhere. Even as shells fall, destroying what has already been destroyed, another far more insidious danger looms for those who have until now escaped death: Starvation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The images of emaciated limbs and drawn faces of children haunting our screens are real. The warnings of famine and starvation are now real. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations has urged Israel to allow its “humanitarian partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza,\u201d noting that “the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical supplies” are waiting in Jordan and Egypt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And yet, the trucks wait. Their engines idle. And children die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our church networks have secured some food and water that have trickled into Gaza, which is nearly hermetically sealed, cut off from the rest of the world, but that aid is far from sufficient even for the families cared for by Gaza\u2019s two parishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More aid is needed now! <\/p>\n\n\n