Starving the Cradle of Life: Zionist Crimes Against Nursing Mothers and Infants in Gaza
On World Breastfeeding Week, Imam Khamenei Condemns the Inhuman Blockade that Starves Both Mothers and Babies in Palestine
As the world marks World Breastfeeding Week, a time meant to highlight the sanctity of nurturing life and the essential bond between mother and child, the Zionist regime continues to unleash unspeakable cruelty against Palestinian women and their babies in Gaza.
While global organizations advocate for the importance of maternal and infant health, in Gaza, nursing mothers are deliberately starved, their bodies weakened, and their milk supplies intentionally cut off through systematic deprivation of food, clean water, and medicine. This is not an accidental by-product of war — it is a calculated weapon wielded by the Zionist regime to destroy the very foundations of life.
In response to this ongoing atrocity, Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a powerful condemnation:
"What the Zionists are doing in Gaza, especially against women and children, is a source of shame for the so-called supporters of human rights. In World Breastfeeding Week, the Zionist regime is starving both mothers and infants. This is a crime that will never be erased from the pages of history."
His words cut through the silence of a world that claims to champion human rights yet turns away as children die of hunger and dehydration, their mothers too weak to nourish them. This is not just a failure of politics — it is a failure of humanity.
For decades, the Zionist regime has imposed a crushing blockade on Gaza. But since October 2023, this siege has intensified into a full-scale genocide, where the starvation of babies has become a strategy. Food trucks are blocked, aid is withheld, and the cries of hungry infants echo through the ruins — a modern-day Karbala witnessed by a complicit world.
According to humanitarian reports, Gaza’s healthcare system has collapsed. Maternity wards have no supplies. Mothers have no strength. Newborns die not from illness, but from lack of milk and warmth. In a land where resistance is born from rubble, the enemy seeks to kill even the ability to nurture life.
The irony of World Breastfeeding Week is bitter in this context. As global campaigns post slogans about love and nourishment, Zionist bombs fall on maternity clinics, and infant formula is considered contraband.
Yet in the face of this darkness, the words of Imam Khamenei remind the world of its moral duty — and its shame:
“This is a crime that will never be erased from the pages of history.”
Every mother’s body turned cold with hunger. Every baby silenced by thirst. These are not just statistics — they are witnesses. Witnesses to a crime that cries out to heaven, demanding not only remembrance, but justice.
Reference: The Official Website Of Ayatollah Khamenei