Pakistan, May 26 -- Entire families are vanishing in a flash. Houses, schools, hospitals: flattened. Gaza would soon enter its 600th day under siege, and the world is still fumbling over whether to frame this catastrophe as security "tit-for-tat," offer muted prayers, or post another hashtag.

Over 53,900 Palestinians are dead and 122,000, wounded. Let that sink in. In the past 24 hours alone, Gaza's health ministry reported at least 38 killed and more than 200 injured; many of them children. Nine members of a single family in Khan Younis were wiped out in a single strike. Elsewhere, a four-year-old boy died of starvation. He is not the first. He may not be the last. This is not famine caused by failed rains or economic collapse. It is en...