Thousands march in Tel Aviv against starvation and destruction of Gaza
Standing Together writes:
On Thursday 22 July in Tel Aviv, over a thousand of us marched with sacks of flour in our hands, in an emergency protest that we organised against the Israeli government’s starvation campaign in Gaza.
We marched because we cannot remain silent while food is withheld from millions. We cannot go on with life as usual while the hostages are abandoned and Gaza is erased.
We are in disbelief of what our government is doing. We are sickened by the images flooding our phones every day of skeleton children lying motionless in overcrowded hospital beds, of families boiling weeds for dinner, of mothers trying to soothe babies who haven’t had milk in weeks, and of children digging through garbage just to find a scrap of food.
These are not distant images from a humanitarian crisis. These people are our neighbours. They are one hour away from us, just across the fence. While we move through a daily routine that still resembles normal life, they are living and dying in a reality that has been engineered to destroy them.
There has been no coverage of the mass starvation in Gaza in Israeli media, and that’s exactly why we’re taking more action. Last Thursday, we were outside Channel 12 demanding they break the silence. This morning, we launched a WhatsApp campaign. Our activists sent over 700 messages directly to Israeli journalists urging them to report the truth. Tonight [23 July], we’re protesting outside the Channel 11 (Kan) studios in Jerusalem, demanding they break the silence.
There is no way to justify mass starvation. There is no moral framework, no version of security, that can explain away these deaths and requires starving millions. And that is exactly why we are in the streets.
Because when they call for the horrors, we respond by organizing. We grow stronger in the face of brutality because we know there is another way forward. There is a way to send this racist, messianic government home: by building power from below, as a new majority of Palestinians and Jews who refuse to give up on each other or on this land.
Help us fight back by pledging a monthly donation of any amount to support our organising work.
We will not stop fighting. We will not allow this government to silence us. We will continue to mobilise, and to take the streets again and again until the war crimes come to an end.
We will stop this war, we will bring the hostages home and we will build a future rooted in peace and dignity.
Posted 24 July 2025