Thousands of children in Gaza face severe malnutrition and starvation as military assaults intensify and supply routes are restricted. A seven-year-old child has been reduced to bones and skin and now receives liquid food by syringe after drastic weight loss. Medical teams lack basic medicines and face barriers delivering supplies, creating life-threatening shortages of treatments such as potassium chloride. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that more than half a million people in northern Gaza are experiencing famine. At least 289 people, including 115 children, have died from starvation amid a suffocating blockade and limited humanitarian access.
The Palestinian girl is one of tens of thousands of children facing malnutrition in Gaza as Israel's man-made famine deepens with the Israeli military stepping up its assault on Gaza City. Mai's mother, Nadia Abu Arar, says her child was once lively and joyous, but she is now fighting for her life after drastically losing weight. The doctors told me that she isn't suffering from any disease or from any past condition.
Hisham Abu Al Oun, paediatric director at the Patient's Friends Hospital in Gaza City, said Israel has been preventing the delivery of medicines to the enclave, which has made it challenging to treat patients suffering from malnutrition. Potassium chloride is the easiest medication that any doctor can prescribe. We don't even have that. We have babies dying because we don't have it. Sometimes supplies come in, but unfortunately, very little, he said.
At least 289 people, including 115 childre,n have died due to starvation in the enclave so far. Israel has been imposing a suffocating blockade on Gaza, allowing only a small amount of food through airdrops and the United States-backed group GHF, forcing Palestinians to risk their lives to reach aid sites deep inside areas under control of the Israeli military.
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