My family in Gaza is starving – Israel wants to make things worse

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t just a war (Picture: Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images)When I called my brother in Gaza last week, I prepared myself for the usual fear. The usual silence between sentences, the distant rumble of drones, the broken sentences from a broken internet connection.But I wasn’t prepared for what he told me this time. He said: ‘We prefer the bombshells. At least if we die from a bomb, we die quickly. This slow death of hunger — it’