Musab Al-Debs, a 14-year-old boy, has lost 75% of his body weight, weighing only 10 kilograms. After being injured in an Israeli airstrike, he is now severely malnourished and largely paralyzed. His mother expresses despair over the lack of food available to them, highlighting a wider crisis affecting children in Gaza. Musab has spent two months in a hospital that is unable to provide adequate nutrition. Media portrayals focus on his image to illustrate starvation amidst other health complications faced by children in similar predicaments.
Musab Al-Debs, 14, has lost 75 percent of his body weight, currently weighing no more than 10 kilograms after an Israeli airstrike led to severe injury and malnutrition.
His mother Shahinaz described seeing her son 'being eaten away every day' due to a lack of food and basic nutrition, highlighting a humanitarian crisis for children in Gaza.
Musab has been largely paralyzed, only partly conscious, and suffers severe malnutrition, unable to improve due to the hospital's lack of nutrient supplies necessary for tube feeding.
Photos of Musab have been used in media to symbolize the starvation crisis in Gaza, yet other significant health issues among starvation subjects remain unreported.
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