Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in

Adam has been on my mind lately, more so than usual.

I met Adam in 2018 in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, which was then under siege and heavy bombardment. In the dilapidated hospital ward, there lay Adam: 10 years old and weighing just over 10 kilograms. Unable to speak or cry, all he could do was make a hoarse sound with every breath. A few days later, Adam died of malnutrition.

A couple of years before that, my colleague Hanaa called from Syria late one night….