Washington is fixated on the twists and turns of a widening political crisis as MAGA world revolts over the Trump administration’s Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio.

Yet there’s nowhere near as much attention on a humanitarian scandal of unbearable dimensions that is unfolding in Gaza, in which the United States may be complicit.

The Epstein saga is a tragedy, written in the pain endured by dozens of women and young girls who testified that they were abused by the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. But this human angle has often been forgotten in a week focused on Trump’s missteps and obfuscations.

The political storm that is obscuring the agony of victims who lost any opportunity for justice when Epstein took his own life in prison is simultaneously blotting out a larger-scale catastrophe abroad.

Encroaching famine is taking lives in Gaza, with the old, the sick and children most at risk. Heart-rending footage is emerging from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave bordering Israel, of emaciated infants; parents desperate to feed their families; and the squabbles breaking out over the meager food that is available.