Forcing people to leave the island by starving them is an act of unimaginable cruelty. This is happening in Europe, which, after all, bears human rights on its banners and has signed every possible treaty to express this. Today, the Greek authorities have decided that the end justifies the means. And the means is to drive migrants from Lesbos. The means – to cut them off from their right to sufficient nutrition.

More than 500 residents of the camp on Lesbos stopped receiving meals overnight. They have no money or work and their children have no access to education. Now they have nothing to eat. The first ones are already starting to leave, but no one is waiting for them in Athens nor elsewhere in Europe. They find themselves trapped between war and persecution at home and a closed, rejecting Europe. Let us call them prisoners, as they have indeed become prisoners, although every prisoner in Europe, even the worst, gets three full meals a day.

What can we do about it? Break down, get angry, disagree, protest. But we can also give at least one meal to the hungry – these include men, women, children, the sick, diabetics and pregnant women begging for our help. This will not change the attitude of the authorities, but it will ensure that no one in the camp suffers from hunger. At least until someone changes the rules that strip these people of their dignity and basic rights.

One meal is PLN 15. This is enough to ensure that no one goes to sleep hungry tonight feeling abandoned.