This week, Israel continued to starve Palestinians in Gaza on their own land. In a dispatch by the writer Rami Abu Jamous, we learned about an 18-year-old boy named Obeida who died trying to get food for his family, after they went three days without any food. “Like most of [Gaza’s] inhabitants,” Abu Jamous wrote, Obeida’s family “had been forced to move several times, winding up in a tent in a Gaza City schoolyard.” But on that day, Obeida took the wrong step. On his way to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution center, he was killed by detritus from an exploding tank.

Meanwhile, Saliha Bayrak reported this week on the activists from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition whose attempts at bringing real aid to Gaza by sea were thwarted by IDF soldiers. “You could tell that they hated us.… they know we don’t have any weapons, but they just wanted to humiliate us,” German activist Yasemin Acar, recovering back at home, told Bayrak. They’ve been through a lot, but their fight has not ended: The Freedom Flotilla sent off their latest boat toward Gaza on Sunday, with 21 international activists and journalists on board, Bayrak tells us. Here’s hoping that good things come to them, and to the people of Gaza.

-Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation

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