“The hospital system in Gaza has all but collapsed. We have paediatricians in field hospitals in Gaza who said that they are seeing cases of malnutrition. They are seeing hepatitis, jaundice, gastroenteritis. These are horrific challenges facing children. And we just do not have supplies or enough personnel to deal with this.”
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children International
»Speaking from #Rafah in southern #Gaza, #UN Children’s Fund spokesperson James #Elder said that 13,750 #children have now been #killed according to Gaza’s health authorities, amid Israeli airstrikes and bombardment launched in response to #Hamas-led #terror attacks on #Israel on 7 October. […]
the #UNICEF official also noted that the agency’s own data indicated that one in three children under two years old now suffer from acute #malnutrition.«
It's just hard to watch and share these images and videos, since most people don't seem to care at all.
And Americans are now so excited and happy that their beloved #GenocideJoe is dropping crumbs into the ocean of famished Palestinians, that they don't even want to hear or read about the misery of innocent children of #Gaza.
The child is at a hospital with no medicine or ability to help him.
A Palestinian child suffering from malnutrition receives treatment at a healthcare centre in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 4, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
Dr Imad Dardonah, a paediatrician at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, says that the most doctors at the hospital can do for malnourished and dehydrated children is to give them saline solution or sugar solution.
“All of this is happening due to the lack of food,” he said.
“My message is an appeal to the entire world to intervene and save all the children,” he said. “The war must stop immediately.”
The volume of #HumanitarianAid delivered to #Gaza has collapsed in recent weeks as Israeli airstrikes have targeted police officers who guard the convoys, #UN ofcls say, exposing them to looting by #criminal gangs & desperate #civilians.
The slowdown in #HumanitarianAid comes amid increasingly dire warnings from #humanitarian experts that #Gaza’s 2.2M inhabitants are on the brink of #famine. The situation is most precarious north of the Strip, where aid groups withdrew months ago, & ~300k #civilians remain.
1 in 6 children in the north is suffering from acute #malnutrition, acc/to a WHO nutritional analysis, w/ 3% of them exhibiting “severe wasting” — putting them at risk of death unless they receive urgent #medical treatment.
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People are living on one meal a day and can go for entire days without eating proper food.
We’re seeing children roaming around in Rafah looking for scraps of food. Newborn babies are dying of malnutrition and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding do not have the necessary nutrients to continue feeding their children or bring to term their gestation period.
'The team investigated how deficiencies in crucial micronutrients such as vitamin A, B12, folate, iron, and zinc affected the community of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that live in the digestive system. They discovered that these deficiencies led to significant shifts in the gut microbiome of mice—most notably an alarming expansion of bacteria and fungi known to be opportunistic pathogens.'