“Hungry is a terrible reality for children and families in Gaza,” UNICEF recently published on X social media. More than two million people in Gaza face serious food deficiency, with more than 100 NGOs warning against a “pile of starvation”.
Meanwhile, more than 800 people have been killed in recent weeks who have tried to achieve food, mostly in the bulk shooting of Israeli soldiers published near distribution centers for the humanitarian Gaza Foundation, Reuters reported.
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In addition, the Israeli forces killed almost 60,000 Palestinians in air strikes, bombarding and shooting since the start of their attack on Gaza in response to attacks on Israel by the Hamas group, which killed 1,200 people and captured 251 hostages in October 2023.
For the first time since the beginning of the war, Palestinian officials say that dozens are now also dying hunger.
The Ministry of Health Gaza said on Tuesday that 9,000,000 children were hungry and 70,000 already show signs of malnutrition.
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Meanwhile, the department in the hospital was a patient’s friends of the benevolent company crowded with other skeletal children, some doubled to 12 beds, Guardian said. There are only two functional pediatric teams left in Gaza and up to 200 children appear daily.
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What causes mass hunger in Gaza?
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that Palestinians in Gaza suffer from a man created by “mass hunger” to block the enclave.
Tedros CEO Adhanom Ghebreyes warned that “the hungry crisis is accelerated by the collapse of assistance pipes and restrictions on access”.
Gaza has witnessed that her food reserves ran out because Israel interrupted all the supplies in the territory in March and then raised this blockade with new measures in May, which, according to their objectives, would prevent the help of helping to militant groups.
Despite the partial elevator of the Israeli blockade on the inserts of humanitarian trucks in May, the food supplies that reach Gaza are insufficient and 2.1 million people leave uncertain food, CNN reported.
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Meanwhile, the United Nations reported that more than a thousand people had killed Israeli forces, while since the end of May they were looking for food when a new assistance group supported by Gaza, the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation, began to operate.
“Much of the population in Gaza hungry. I don’t know how you would call it other than mass starvation-and it’s a man,” Tedros told reporters.
“Parents tell us that their children are crying to sleep from hunger,” Tedros CNN quoted. “Places of food distribution have become in places violence,” he added.
The price of flour in Gaza, which has increased sharply in recent months to suffer from people in war gaza. According to Guardian, flour is sold at the beginning of the year more than 30 times the market rate.
Tedros stressed that “the global acute malnutrition rate exceeds 10 percent and more than 20 percent of pregnant and nursing women who have been tested is undernourished, often strictly”.
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