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The Palestinian woman, Aya Al -Sukafi, sits in one of the places of displacement that she resorted to in the Gaza Strip, holding her mobile phone and looked with tearful eyes to the image of her baby Jinan, who died in her arms on Saturday, due to malnutrition and lack of medicine, due to the repercussions of the Israeli genocide.
This comes as the Israeli occupation continues its strict siege on the Gaza Strip and closing the crossings in front of the entry of aid and goods since the second of last March.
Jinan (4 months) was born during the genocide war committed by Israel with American support in the Strip, amid the smoke of bombing and the borders of explosions, and lived short months full of hunger and the lack of the simplest elements of life.
Hunger, siege and death
It was not leveled or siege for long, and Jinan was one of the dozens of children who were victims of the systematic starvation policy followed by the occupation against the Palestinian people.
The government media office in Gaza announced that the number of deaths has increased due to the Israeli starring policy to 57 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, warning of the increase in the number of Tel Aviv’s closure of the crossings and its prevention of the entry of relief aid two months ago.
For more than once, Palestinian government officials and nations warned of the dangers of Israel’s continued closure of the crossings and preventing it from entering the basic supplies of food, medicines, fuel and water for the sector two months ago.
Fear
The 21 -year -old Skafi, the lives of her only 4 -year -old child, fear that the fate of her baby Jinan, who died at the “Al -Rantisi Children” Hospital in Gaza City, will receive the continued lack of food and medicine, and Israel continues to exterminate the besieged civilians.
The mother explained that she gave birth to her child naturally, but she started to weaken little by little, as there was no milk, no medicine, and no food.
She said that her daughter died due to malnutrition, and we were not able to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, as a result of Israel closing the crossings.
She added that her daughter needed to travel to receive treatment abroad, noting that she made repeated calls to the world in order to save her, but to no avail.
She described her hospitalization period as “painful”, as she was looking daily for a single milk package for her child in the Gaza Strip, without finding her.
A stifling food crisis
In turn, the Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al -Barash, said that 91% of the Strip’s population suffers from a “food crisis” due to the continuous Israeli blockade and the closure of the crossings.
He added that Gaza is experiencing a horrific human tragedy, which combines hunger, poverty and disease, as a result of the genocide and the suffocating Israeli siege by closing the crossings and not entering aid.
He explained that 65% of the population of Gaza does not get clean, drinking water, and about 92% of children and breastfeeding women suffer from severe food shortages, which constitutes a direct threat to their lives and growth.
Al -Barash emphasized that Gaza is witnessing a collective collapse in all sectors, due to the use of starvation as a waring weapon, in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
On Thursday, the government media office in Gaza announced that the sector entered an advanced stage of famine due to the Israeli blockade.
In early March 2025, the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel ended on January 19, but Israel dismissed it, and resumed extermination on the 18th of the same month.
Since last March, Israel has closed the sector crossings in front of the entry of food, relief, medical and goods, causing a significant deterioration in the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinians, according to governmental, human rights and international reports.
The 2.2 million Gaza Palestinians are entirely dependent on that aid after the genocide that Israel has continued to commit for 19 months into poor, according to the World Bank data.
This humanitarian crisis comes in light of the displacement of more than 90% of the Palestinians of the sector from their homes, some of whom have experienced this experience more than once, where they live inside crowded shelters or in the open, which increased the outbreak of diseases and epidemics.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza that left more than 170,000 Palestinians between a martyr and a wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, amid massive destruction.
