Gaza is a mirror reflecting the world's absolute shame: Opinion
She was four years old.
She died on the floor of a collapsing hospital, her tiny ribs rising and falling like wings too fragile to lift. Her body had no fat left to burn. Her eyes had sunken. Her voice - once a whisper of laughter - had long since vanished.
She did not die quickly. She died slowly.
She died watched by her mother, who begged her to hold on. Watched by a doctor who had no more syringes, no more saline, no more words, and by a world that tuned in - then turned away.
Her death was not a tragedy. It was a sentence, written not in haste, but in policy.
Razan is not alone. She is one of thousands.
Between March and June - well into the total blockade - the UN agency for Palestine refugees, Unrwa, screened over 74,000 children in Gaza. More than 5,500 were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition. Over 800 were already critical.
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