With the escalation of international warnings of the risk of starvation in the Gaza Strip, international and media reports confirm that the population suffers from an almost complete lack of food, at a time when scenes of fainting children, women and the elderly are repeated in the streets and in front of aid distribution centers, amid a great scarcity of basic materials and strict restriction to introduce humanitarian relief.
According to the Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), cases of fainting from hunger have become a daily scene in the north of Gaza, where people fall to the ground while searching for a bite that clogs their livelihood or standing in long lines waiting for aid.
The agency stated that children in particular are fainting due to acute malnutrition, in light of the inability of families to provide one meal daily.
The World Health Organization says that hunger has turned into a deadly weapon in Gaza, with deaths as a result of famine, especially among children.
According to the organization’s data, more than 90% of children under five suffer from critical levels of malnutrition, and dozens of them have already died due to hunger.
In the latest reports of humanitarian officials, they said that Gaza residents were “literally collapsing from hunger”, while shelters and hospitals are suffering from a severe lack of food and medicine alike.
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They described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “unprecedented”, with diseases caused by malnutrition among the displaced.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicates that Gaza has become one of the most dangerous parts of the land for children, as young people die from slow hunger, in light of the complete collapse of food, health and water systems.
The organization says that hundreds of children suffer from acute wasting, and they do not have the necessary therapeutic food.
A child has exhausted his body, the star of starvation practiced by the occupation on Gaza, in front of the silence of the world, and he is waiting for food and medicine to save his life. pic.twitter.com/mdzvnkuwhd
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A few days ago, the United Nations announced that more than half of the Gaza Strip’s population – that is, more than a million people – face the risk of starvation, while adequate humanitarian aid is prohibited, despite the repeated calls to open the crossings and the availability of safe corridors.
With the continued military operations and the imposition of the siege, humanitarian initiatives did not succeed in reaching all affected areas, especially in the northern Gaza Strip.
Food distribution points turned into “death points”, after targeting or dispersing them by force, killing dozens and depriving others from reaching food.
Relief organizations talk about the presence of a “catastrophic deficiency” in basic foodstuffs, such as flour, milk and oil, which makes the population depend on weeds or water polluted to survive.
UNICEF says that pictures of children who cannot stand from hunger are a “human warning bell”, amid calls for an immediate ceasefire and allowing supplies to enter without restrictions.
In light of this catastrophic situation, the voices of mothers are still rising in the centers of displacement, and they are shouted to save their children from “slow death”, while the world documents one of the worst humanitarian crises in the modern era, where people die in the 21st century, in the sight of the international community.