Dear Editor,

In the past two months, more than 1,000 people seeking food have been killed, according to the UN Human Rights Office, as 28 nations this week condemned the “horrifying” killing of Gazans trying to get food, according to Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation).

The Israelis are tearing my heart out. How dare the descendants of the greatest crime of all time — the Holocaust — not realize they are committing an equal crime against the people of GAZA, many of whom are children. How dare Bibi Netanyahu blame his victims for the Israeli murder of thousands that are simply trying to get food for their families.

Bibi needs to be hauled before the law for his unspeakable crimes. THERE IS NO EXCUSE — not October 7 — nor any other horrible acts the Palestinians may have committed.

HAMAS, along with Israel Must also must be condemned for their crimes and hauled before the court for justice. A pox on both of their houses.

And what is the United States doing?

Selling Israel more bombs and bullets in order to slaughter more innocent children?

Trump can have my two Honorable Discharges, from the Navy and Army Reserve, before he uses my name in support of his and Bibi’s war against the innocents.

I can’t stand to see the emaciated children waving their pans begging for food.

The AP writes about the starvation, this way: When mass starvation grips a community, something rare and terrible occurs. Starvation is not only the biological phenomenon of the body wasting away. It’s also the death rattle of society. Famine is the sight of people scavenging for food in a garbage heap. It’s a woman cooking in secret, hiding food from her starving cousins. It’s a family selling its grandmother’s jewelery for a single meal, their faces blank and emotionless, their eyes glazed. This is the degradation, the humiliation, the shame — and, yes, the dehumanization — that happens when human beings scrabble for food like animals.

THIS IMMORALITY MUST STOP.

Bill Bryant

St. Clairsville