A 35-day-old Gaza infant died yesterday of severe malnutrition, a sad reflection of the desperate hunger crisis in the devastated Strip.
The death of baby Jawad Al Anqar in Al Shifa Hospital brought the total number of children who have died from hunger-related causes in Gaza to 70.
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a real and deadly famine. Medical teams have reported a sharp increase in deaths due to hunger and acute malnutrition.
The health ministry described the situation as catastrophic, especially near US-linked aid distribution points in southern Gaza, which are described as death traps.
Since dawn yesterday, Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis received 32 dead and dozens of wounded. The victims were struck while gathering around aid distribution centres.
The ministry warned of an unprecedented health and humanitarian disaster if the international silence continues. It urged the global community, the United Nations, and humanitarian organisations to act immediately by opening humanitarian corridors, allowing safe and continuous entry of food, medicine and fuel and stopping the manipulation and politicisation of aid by Israel.
The Government Media Office in Gaza also issued an international appeal for an urgent global response to lift the blockade, end starvation tactics, and launch investigations into the use of hunger as a weapon of war.
It said ‘651 days of genocide and siege have turned Gaza into a graveyard for children’.
The health ministry said: “Gaza is starving. The world must not look away.”
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