malnutrition

Newborn care in Gaza has deteriorated dramatically

UNICEF estimates that at least four thousand children in Gaza were cut off from life-saving newborn care last year due to ongoing attacks on hospitals, electricity outages, and fuel shortages. Even before the current war, Gaza's capacity for neonatal intensive...

UNICEF:50,000 children in Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says more than 50,000 children in Gaza are acutely malnourished. UNICEF Nutrition Director Victor Agüayo explained that this number of children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition and need immediate treatment. UNICEF reports...

WHO: 15,000 children in Gaza suffer from malnutrition

The World Health Organization said that thousands of children in Gaza suffer from the risk of severe malnutrition, after discovering that about 15,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. The organization explained in a statement that among these are 3,288 children...

A thousand children and patients lost their lives in Gaza

The government media office in Gaza reported that more than a thousand children and patients lost their lives as a result of preventing the Israeli occupation forces from receiving treatment outside the Gaza Strip. The office also noted that...

Independent experts: Famine spread across Gaza

A group of independent human rights experts mandated by the United Nations said Tuesday that the recent increase in the number of deaths among children due to malnutrition in the Gaza Strip indicates widespread famine across the territory. Health authorities...

Famine threatens Gaza children and mothers search for milk

Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7, at least 32 people have died of malnutrition, many of them children, according to Hamas government's press office. The World Health Organization said more than four out of five...

WFP warns of famine spreading from northern Gaza to south

The World Food Program warned on Sunday of a total famine in the northern Gaza Strip, explaining, "The situation is worsening in the south, and children have died due to hunger and malnutrition." WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain said that,...

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