Death of children under 5 years old in Gaza due to famine and hunger

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Palestinian Ministry of Health issued a statement referring to the spread of Famine and hunger throughout the Gaza Strip announced that the occupying regime has placed the people of Gaza in the triangle of death through aggression, hunger and disease. The ministry added: Continued aggression against Gaza means more genocide against the people. Palestine and this is what the occupiers and their supporters want. Half a million people in the north of Gaza suffer from famine and hunger, and hunger silently kills these people, and they suffer greatly from improper nutrition and dehydration and a severe lack of medical facilities.

According to the information of the Palestinian Ministry of Health In Gaza, about one million people under the age of 18 live in the Gaza Strip, almost all of whom are at risk of acute malnutrition; Especially after the reduction of humanitarian aid in recent weeks and the cutoff of aid to northern Gaza. Sources affiliated with the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that in the past two months, 8 children under the age of 5 died in the Gaza Strip due to malnutrition. They lost their lives during the war. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also announced that the situation in Gaza is very dangerous for children and the conditions that the people of Gaza have been experiencing since the beginning of the war are unprecedented in the whole world. They warned and announced that the Gaza Strip is witnessing a severe lack of food for children and in this situation where mothers do not have the strength to breastfeed their babies due to malnutrition, dry milk is also extremely scarce and this crisis is not only related to the north but throughout Gaza is suffering from this disaster.

In this situation, families have had to resort to unsuitable alternatives for babies instead of powdered milk, such as grinding rice or wheat and giving them to children. In some cases, families even have to use a mixture of ground fodder with water to feed the children, which seriously harms them.

“Ihab Abu Karsh”, a resident of Gaza, who has 3 children 8, 3 years old and 8 months old says that we cannot find food to eat and we have to use inappropriate food such as fodder to feed ourselves. My children did not eat these foods at first, but later they were forced to eat everything we put in front of them due to extreme hunger. I can’t get milk for them and my children haven’t had milk for several months and even my 8-month-old baby doesn’t get enough milk; because his mother cannot give him enough milk due to malnutrition.

Following the spread of hunger and famine throughout Gaza, which has worsened with the suspension of World Food Program aid to the north of this region, 4 affiliated institutions They announced to the United Nations, including the World Health Organization, Oxfam, UNICEF and the World Food Program, that in the shadow of Israel’s continuous aggression since October 7, Gaza has become a region of death and hunger.

After nearly 5 months after the genocidal war of the Zionist regime against Gaza, UN agencies announced that clean water and food are extremely scarce in the besieged Gaza Strip and almost all young children suffer from infectious diseases.

According to the report of the organization nations, some people in Gaza have turned to eating fodder and hunger has spread throughout the region. Also, clean and potable water is not found at all, and people find only one and a half or two liters of non-potable water per day to meet their daily needs.

A few days ago, Dr. Hossam Abu Sofia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. In the north of the Gaza Strip, it was reported that during the past few days, a large number of children in the north of the Gaza Strip died due to malnutrition, lack of food and suffering from diseases and epidemics caused by the enemy’s continuous encroachment and siege against this area.

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