7/28/2025–|Last update: 16:07 (Mecca time)
In a tragic, aggravating scene, the New York Times revealed – in a detailed field report – that the famine has been hitting the heart of hospitals operating in the Gaza Strip, in light of a suffocating Israeli siege and a near -complete collapse of the health system.
She stated that hunger is no longer an emergency, but rather a daily battle that the medical staff and patients are fighting, young and old, in light of the inability to provide food, infant formula, or even intravenous nutrition solutions.
Famine stretches throughout Gaza
After months of warnings, international organizations and doctors say that famine is sweeping the sector as a result of the strict Israeli restrictions that prevent the flow of aid for months. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 56 Palestinians died this month as a result of hunger, which represents about half the number of deaths caused by starvation since the outbreak of the war 22 months ago.
Under the rapid collapse of the health system, hospitals have turned from sites to treat injuries into squares to combat acute malnutrition. The medical crews, which work in inhumane conditions, inspect awareness while performing their duties, and they are revived with salt and sugary solutions. It has been exacerbated by the depletion of antibiotics and analgesics, and even intravenous solutions to feed the exhausted patients.
The American newspaper reported that the nurses are fainted in the wings of treatment due to hunger and dehydration, and doctors find nothing to help the exhausted patients except water or limited fluids.
A British doctor in Gaza: I saw the severe severe malnutrition that I did not think could happen in a civilized world. The word leather and bone do not describe what I saw
Doctors described a tragic scene that is repeated daily: infants suffering from excessive wasting and cannot be saved by giving them large amounts of food once, for fear of being “re -feeding syndrome”, a serious condition that may lead to death.
“I saw children about to die, and we were unable to retrieve them from the edge of death,” he says, volunteer surgery, as the British surgeon Nick Mainard tells a “shocking” view of a 7 -month -old baby who seemed like a skeleton.
“I saw the severe severe malnutrition that I did not think could happen in a civilized world. The word leather and bone do not describe what I saw,” Mainard says.
He adds that “a human famine that uses a war weapon, and will lead to more deaths, unless food is allowed immediately.”
Bald aid and a fatal distribution system
After a comprehensive diet that lasted from March to May, Israel allowed some aid to enter, but it replaced the former UN regime with limited distribution centers supervised by contractors of private companies with Israeli military support.
The newspaper pointed out that these points, which can not be accessed until after traveling long, during which one passes through Israeli fire lines, turned into “death traps” that claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinians while trying to reach food.
Although Israel claims that this regime prevents Hamas from seizing aid, Israeli military officials acknowledged the New York Times not to have evidence of this.
Israel has also said that it only launched “warning shots”, but field doctors confirmed that there were fatal injuries in the trunk areas, which suggests that it is a result of direct targeting.
A late response
In his response to the informations of the two doctors, ampere and Minard, the Israeli army office, who is responsible for coordinating the entry of aid to Gaza, said that he is working with international partners to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid in line with international law.
Late Saturday night, Israel announced that it had begun to drop air aid in northern Gaza, and that it would stop its military operations for a few hours a day in selected areas to facilitate the entry of aid by land.
Doctors: The famine does not only cause direct death, but the bodies of patients weaken to the point of preventing them from recovering from injuries or normal diseases.
But the World Food Program recently confirmed that a third of the Gaza population is going through full days without food. At MSF clinics, a quarter of children and pregnant women suffer from malnutrition.
Doctors say that famine does not only cause direct death, but also weakens the bodies of patients to the point of preventing them from recovering from normal injuries or diseases. Absolute abortion, early births for children with weak immunity or infected with deformities increased.
Horrible numbers and fictional prices
Although there are some foodstuffs in the local markets, their prices are outside the ability of the population. The kilogram of flour or tomatoes is the price – according to the New York Times report – about $ 30, while almost no meat and rice, which the people do not find a choice between starvation or exposure to death by snipers in order to reach the food aid distribution centers.
Even this aid is sometimes damaged because it is not possible to distribute in time. Israel has announced that it had destroyed nearly 100 trucks of food recently. For its part, the United Nations is responsible for this to the Israeli restrictions that hinder the passage of convoys in an open war zone.
Peace and weighs: Life is harder
The American newspaper also dealt with the story of the baby, Salam Barghouth, whose third month, as a living example of suffering. She was born immediately after the siege, and her mother, Hanan, 22, seemed to be weaker than going with her feet to the distribution centers. As for the child’s father, he also failed to reach these centers before the aid was running out.
“I struggle and fight every day to keep it alive. I breastfeed it as much as I can, and when I cannot give it formula, it is very expensive as the price of one box is about 120 dollars,” said Umm Salam to the New York Times.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Abu Al -Foul (24 months old) is suffering from wasting to the degree of the emergence of his bones. His family does not find food, and nearby hospitals cannot receive him because of the depletion of equipment and medicines.
