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Urgent: Famine declared in Gaza
Urgent: Famine declared in Gaza
Our push to make governments intervene is now more critical than ever. Children and babies are literally starving to death. Read more below and please donate what you can now.
It just got even worse in Gaza -- and we cannot, must not, look away.
Over 500,000 people are starving and famine has now officially been declared. It's only the fifth time that such a severe classification of starvation has ever been made.
Then days ago, Israel bombed the hospital I used to work in. And when rescuers and journalists rushed in, they bombed it again, killing 20 people.
As a doctor, I am one of the few who can bear witness to the unimaginable horrors inside Gaza. I've seen skeletal babies, mothers too weak to feed their newborns, even nurses and surgeons collapsing from hunger. These images will never leave me.
That's why I joined Avaaz, travelling to meet governments face to face. To tell them what I've seen, and to make them face the reality of genocide. I've watched politicians break down in tears, realising it could be their own children starving and alone. And I felt the room shift when excuses finally crumbled.
Some governments are starting to act -- cutting weapons, calling for sanctions. But it's nowhere near enough. We must turn that trickle into a tidal wave.
Now Avaaz is organising to take many more doctors to meet Presidents and Prime Ministers. We can't deliver aid ourselves -- Israel's blockade makes that impossible. But we can fight like hell to force governments to intervene, stop the genocide, and open the borders for a flood of humanitarian aid.
There is a fire in me, burning for all the children I've held and lost. And I promise you: I will not stop.
Please, donate whatever you can -- so together we can change the hearts and minds of those with the power to end this horror. Donate what you can now.
For the children of Gaza, and the hopes of tomorrow,
Dr Graeme Groom and the whole team at Avaaz
