The dire consequences of Israel's blockade unfold in Gaza as malnutrition-related deaths surge, particularly impacting vulnerable children.
Most of the dead are children – including ones as old as 15 – as well as a 72-year-old man. / Photo: AP
“The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s Middle East chief, said in a statement earlier this week.Diarrhoeal diseases, rampant in Gaza due to lack of clean water and sanitation, leave many unable to retain any of the calories they ingest, said Anuradha Narayan, a UNICEF child nutrition expert.Israel shut off the entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies after launching its assault on Gaza following Hamas’ Oct.
With alarm growing, Israel bent to international pressure, saying this week it will open crossings for aid directly into northern Gaza and allow sea shipments.Entire districts of Gaza City and surrounding areas have been reduced to rubble by Israeli forces. Still, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain.
“There is no food that suits her age,” said Ahmed, a researcher with Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and an economic journalist. His 70-year-old father gives his own food to Ahmed’s young son, Oleyan.Mahmoud Shalaby, who lives in the Jabaliya refugee camp, said he saw a man in the market give a bag of potato chips to his two sons and tell them to make it last for breakfast and lunch.
When the Israeli military organised food delivery to Gaza City last week, troops guarding the convoy opened fire — on a perceived threat, the military says — as thousands of hungry Palestinians mobbed the trucks.Yazan al Kafarna, 10, died Monday after almost a week of unsuccessful treatment in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
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