The Milk that Never Came: How Famine in Gaza Shatters the First Bond and the Soul of a Nation

By Dr. Mark Brauner

It is one thing to die of hunger. It is another to die never having been held with the fullness of safety and warmth that nature intended.

In Gaza, famine is not a threat. It is a reality measured not only in calories and corpses but in something far more intimate: the silence between a mother and her child when the milk never comes. This is not only…