The death of 2 more babies in the north of Gaza due to hunger and thirst
| The Ministry of Health of Gaza announced the death of 2 more babies in the north of this region due to hunger and thirst and announced that dehydration and malnutrition threaten the lives of thousands of children and pregnant women in the Gaza Strip. |
According to the international group Tasnim News, while death due to hunger and thirst especially It has become a common issue among children in Gaza during the last two months with the brutal aggression of the Zionists and the all-round siege of this area. The Ministry of Health of Palestine in the Gaza Strip announced that yesterday 2 babies in the north of Gaza died as a result of severe dehydration and malnutrition.
In the statement of the Gaza Ministry of Health, it is stated that two babies died in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip as a result of dehydration and malnutrition.
This ministry with Pointing out that dehydration and malnutrition threaten the lives of thousands of children and pregnant women in the Gaza Strip, he called on international organizations to conduct a comprehensive medical review in the shelters, to monitor and treat those suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, and to prevent a make a humanitarian disaster.
The Ministry of Health of Gaza emphasized that the United Nations institutions have the duty to protect women and children and must do all the necessary facilities to save the people of Gaza who are caught in famine.
This ministry also asked the international community to put pressure on the Zionist occupation regime to stop its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people through direct attacks and siege and starvation.
The request of the UN rapporteur to prosecute Israel
On the other hand, “Michael Fakhri”, the UN special rapporteur on food affairs, announced that the crisis in the Gaza Strip was unprecedented at the global level and Israel should be punished for the crimes. The war and genocide that it commits against the Palestinian people should be tried. Hunger threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Missing in Rafah and children dying of hunger in northern Gaza
has been done, but practically no action has been taken on the ground for this purpose.
This UN reporter pointed out that Israel is targeting the teams of human rights organizations and aid convoys in Gaza, and emphasized that Israel’s allies They are also responsible for the violation of human rights by this regime. Michael Fakhri expressed his disappointment with the international system and said: I do not trust the Security Council because the decisions of the Security Council may not be implemented or may be vetoed.
A few days ago, Al-Mayadeen reporter reported the martyrdom of a wounded child named “Mohammed Nasrallah” in al-Shifa hospital due to thirst and hunger and lack of access to medicine.
On the other hand, human rights organizations Humanities in Palestine warned in a joint report that half a million Palestinians in northern Gaza are at serious risk of dying of hunger and thirst, and that aid to the region has been completely cut off for several weeks due to severe restrictions imposed by the occupation. And the war that has been going on since 5 months ago, all food and medicines, especially flour, have become rare in the north of Gaza. In the past, 8 children under the age of 5 died in the Gaza Strip due to malnutrition 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.
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