The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more than 50,000 children in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition, while the United Nations warned that the humanitarian situation in the Strip has become “beyond catastrophic.”
UNICEF Director of Nutrition Victor Aguayo explained that this number of children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from severe malnutrition and need immediate treatment, after the organization warned – earlier – of an imminent explosion in the (humanitarian crisis and an increase in) the number of child deaths linked to malnutrition.
UNICEF reported that 9 out of 10 children in Gaza lack sufficient nutrients to ensure their healthy growth and development, andThe sharp rise in malnutrition rates among children, pregnant women and lactating women in the Strip poses serious threats to their lives.
The organization indicated that food and drinking water are extremely scarce and infectious diseases are spreading, affecting the nutrition and immunity of women and children and leading to an increase in cases of acute malnutrition.
UNICEF, WFP and WHO also called for safe, unhindered and sustained access to multi-faceted humanitarian assistance urgently throughout the Gaza Strip, while I confirmed Gaza Ministry of Health: Dozens of children have died due to malnutrition in recent months.
UN warnings
For his part, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, warned that more than one million people in Gaza did not receive food rations in southern and central Gaza through humanitarian means during last August.
“Despite the challenges we face, the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations continue to do everything they can to provide life-saving assistance to Palestinians,” Dujarric added, following his previous statements that “the risks facing humanitarian workers in Gaza have become unbearable.”
Warnings from international and UN bodies are constantly escalating about the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza in light of the “bleak” famine scene and the occupation’s targeting of relief workers in previous incidents, which leads to obstructing the entry of aid to the besieged sector, which has been subjected to Israeli aggression since October 7, 2023, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded.
