On one previous trip, I saw a bus of children who spent two days trying to get from the north to the south after being held at Israeli checkpoints, and I walked in the bus, and all I could smell was children’s burning flesh. The problem is that, for the vast majority of children, if you die, if you are severely, acutely malnourished and you die, it’s very unusual to have “starved to death.” You’ve died because of diarrhea, basically, or acute watery diarrhea, which is very, very commonplace now, particularly given the restrictions on water and food. You sit and you listen and you talk, and it’s a little girl or a little boy, and they are trying to be brave in some way, or they’re in a coma and the parent’s trying to.
Author: Isaac Chotiner
Published at: 2025-07-07 20:38:52
Still want to read the full version? Full article
