#FastForGaza

I recently fasted during #FastForGaza on World Hunger Day, May 28, 2025.(See: https://unflinching.blog/?s=%23FastForGaza )

The core motto of #FastForGaza is “Hunger is our weapon against injustice.” (“Hunger is Our Weapon Against Injustice”)

This is presented as a non-violent form of protest and resistance, using the physical act of fasting to mirror the suffering in Gaza and raise awareness of the silent crisis of starvation.

The aims of the fast include: raising awareness of hunger, showing solidarity, pressuring elected representatives for a ceasefire and aid access, raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, and demanding institutions end alleged complicity. (“Famine as War”, “Hunger is Our Weapon Against Injustice”)

An immediate ceasefire is seen as the only way to get sufficient food into Gaza. The movement draws inspiration from historical hunger strikes in liberation movements. (“Hunger is Our Weapon Against Injustice”)

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

I have seen, almost daily, for months, images of children mutilated, starved to death, executed. Bodies in pieces. Parents burying limbs. In time, there will be nothing particularly controversial about using these words to describe the things they were created to describe. (The very history of the word “genocide,” meant as a mechanic of forewarning rather than some after-the-fact resolution, is littered with instances of the world’s most powerful governments going to whatever lengths they can to avoid its usage, because usage is attached to obligation. It was never intended to be enough to simply call something genocide: one is required to act.) Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.
El Akkad, Omar. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (p. 25). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza is approaching its apex. Over the past several days, the Israeli military has launched a massive offensive with near-continuous airstrikes across the enclave, a ground invasion, and a full-spectrum blockade on food, fuel, and medicine that has brought hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation.

This is “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as the “concluding moves” in Gaza. The final solution.

The scale of the assault is nearly impossible to track. Just overnight and into today, strikes in the north on the Musa Bin Nusair School in Gaza City, killed at least 13 people, including children who burned to death. In Beit Lahia, Israeli troops are besieging the Indonesian hospital, opening fire on doctors and patients inside with tanks and snipers. A strike on a home in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed at least 12. At least 15 were killed in the bombing of a gas station in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. More strikes in Khan Younis in the south killed at least 10. This is an incomplete account of barely half a day of horror.

“Nothing Left in Jabaliya”: Endless Catastrophes in a Besieged Refugee Camp. After already destroying everything, the Israeli army has returned to invade Jabaliya for the fourth time since the war began. By Hamza M.Salha, Drop Site, May 20, 2025