Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip are desperately trying to feed their newborns, because the punishing blockage of Israel on the besieged enclave has led to disastrous shortages of infants for infants, with a certain use of the filling of bottles of water and food they can find.
Dr. Kahlil Daqran told Tel Aviv Tribune Thursday that, while formula supplies are exhausted, many mothers are often too malnourished for breastfeeding their infants.
“In the Gaza Strip, we have thousands of hungry children because there is no milk for children under the age of two,” said Daqran.
“These children, their mothers also suffer from malnutrition because there is no food, so mothers cannot produce milk. Now our children are fed with water or ground hard legumes, and this is harmful to children in Gaza. ”
Azhar Imad, 31, said that she had mixed Tahini with water in the hope of nourishing four months. But she said she was afraid that the mixture makes her baby sick.
“I use this dough instead of milk, but it will not drink it. All this can cause disease,” said Imad. “Sometimes I give it water in the bottle; There is nothing available. I make his carvi and her herbs, all kinds of herbs. ”
Israel’s blockade on Gaza, which has been under Israeli military bombing since October 2023, has resulted in critical shortages of food, water, medicine and other humanitarian supplies.
Local hospitals said Thursday that at least two other deaths by forced famine of Israel had been reported in the past 24 hours, which brought the total number of deaths related to hunger since the War of Israel began at 159, including 90 children.
The United Nations warned that Palestinian children are particularly vulnerable because hunger seizes coastal territory, and that UN officials have on several occasions of Israel to allow a flow of uninterrupted aid supplies.
Israel blamed the UN for the famine crisis that takes place in the Gaza Strip, saying that the world body had failed to collect supplies.
UN officials and several nations have rejected this assertion as false and stressed that Israel refused to offer safe roads to humanitarian agencies to transport aid to Gaza.
Paratroopers of humanitarian supplies, carried out in recent days, have also not done to approach the generalized hunger crisis. Experts have denounced the effort as dangerous, expensive and ineffective.
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, told journalists on Thursday that The UN and its partners “continue to seize all opportunities to collect supplies from the level passages under Israeli control and to reconstruct these platforms with new supplies”.
“”Our colleagues say that, despite the Israeli announcements concerning the designation of convoy roads as secure, trucks continue to deal with long delays who expose drivers, humanitarian workers and crowds, “said Haq.
“The long expectations are due to a single route has been made available for our teams to leave Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem Crossing) in Gaza, and the Israeli land forces have set up an ad hoc control point on this road.”
While famine continues to grasp Gaza, more Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army while seeking aid on distribution sites operated by the controversial GHF in Israeli and the United States.
A source from Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital told Tel Aviv Tribune that at least 23 people were killed after Israeli forces opened fire on Thursday morning when they were waiting for aid near Netzarim Junction in the center of Gaza.
The fatal incident intervened a few hours before the White House announced that the special envoy of American president Donald Trump in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff and the American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee should enter Gaza on Friday to inspect the aid distribution sites.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that US officials Meet the Palestinians to “hear from the first hand on this disastrous situation on the ground”.
Reporting the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Nour Odeh of Tel Aviv Tribune explained that the trip comes in the middle of growing concern in Washington that American entrepreneurs could be tried responsible for the death of more than 1,000 Palestinians killed while trying to contact the GHF sites since May.
“There is a lot of pressure and insistence in Israel that these sites must continue to operate even if Israel allows more help in Gaza,” said Odeh.
“This organization has been put in place to bypass the United Nations, and Israel is not ready to let it go despite the resistance of the international community to engage with him because she is accused of violating humanitarian principles.”
Hamas said in a statement published via its telegram channel Thursday evening that it was ready to “immediately” negotiations to end the war in Gaza “once the aid has reached those who deserve it and humanitarian crisis and famine in Gaza are finished”.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, countless families continue to deal with a desperate search for food.
Nehma Hamouda said that she had trouble keeping her three-month-old granddaughter Mutaha, alive in the shortage of infants.
Mattaha’s mother was killed by Israeli soldiers when she was pregnant. She gave birth to her daughter prematurely but died weeks later.
“I would use tea for the girl,” said Hamouda, explaining that her granddaughter cannot yet treat solid foods.
“She doesn’t eat and there is no sugar. Where can I get her sugar? I give her a little (anise), and she drinks a little,” she said. “Sometimes when we get the lentil soup from the popular soup, I filter the water and try to feed it. What can I do? “