Gaza Running Out Of Specialized Food To Save Malnourished Children
Geneva/Jerusalem, July 25 (Reuters) – Gaza, according to the United Nations and Humanitarian aid agencies on the verge of escaping from special therapeutic foods needed to save the lives of children who are seriously malnourished.
“Now, we are faced with a terrible situation for escaping from therapeutic materials, Salı Salim Oweis, UNICEF spokesman in Amman, told Reuters on Thursday.
“This is really dangerous for children because they are currently encountering hunger and malnutrition,” he added.
Oweis said UNICEF has enough rutf to treat 3,000 children. Only in the first two weeks of July, UNICEF treated 5,000 children in Gaza with acute malnutrition.
Food intensive, high -calorie rutf materials such as peanut paste enriched with high energy biscuits and milk powder are critical for the treatment of severe malnutrition.
A World Health Organization spokesman said in a statement on Thursday, “Most of the malnutrition treatment materials have been consumed and the rest of the facilities will be consumed very soon.” He said.
DSÖ, Gaza pregnant women and children under five years of age, including the most vulnerable ones, a program aimed at preventing malnutrition, nutritional supplements may have to stop the job, he said.
Gaza’s Food Stocks, since October 2023 Palestinian militant group Hamas in the war since Israel, in March by cutting all the ingredients in May, but in May removed this blockade, but with the necessary restrictions to prevent the guidance of the aid to the militant groups.
As a result, international aid agencies say that only things needed, including medicine, are currently reaching people in Gaza.
Israel said it is determined to allow help, but it should control it to prevent the guidance by militants. He says that he left enough food to Gaza during the war and accused Hamas of Gaza for pain of 2.2 million people.
Israeli Military Aid Coordination Agency Cogat, in response to the questions sent by E -mail about RUTF materials, said that hundreds of aid trucks are working with international organizations to improve the distribution of aid from the transitions expected.
Save The Children, who runs a clinical clinic that treats children who are malnourished in Middle Gaza, said that he has not brought his own materials since February and trusted the United Nations delivery.
Alexandra Saieh, the global president of human politics and advocacy in Save The Children, said, “If they run out, this will also affect UNICEF partners and other organizations that trust their materials to provide it for children,” he said.
UNICEF, from April to mid -July 20,504 children were accepted by acute malnutrition, he said. 3,247 of these patients suffered from severe acute malnutrition, almost in the first trimester of the year almost doubled the number. Severe acute malnutrition can cause death and long -term physical and mental developmental health problems in surviving children.
DSÖ, 21 Wednesday, under the age of 21, this year, so far is among those who died without malnutrition, he said.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday that the two Palestinians died of hunger overnight and brought the total number of people who have been exposed to death in recent weeks as a wave of hunger in the Palestinian settlement.
(Charlotte Greenfield in Jerusalem, Olivia Le Poidevin in Geneva and Jennifer Rigby in London in London; Additional reports of Nidal Al-Mughrabi in Cairo Graff and Nidal Al-Mughrabi in Peter Graff) by Peter Graff)
