More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period | Gaza
Figures, more than 7,000 children under the age of five were put on healing programs for acute malnutrition in clinics operated by UNICEF in Gaza just two weeks of last month.
The total total of UNICEF for August is compiled by UNICEF, but is expected to exceed 15,000 new patients with more than seven times the total in February.
Authorities were declared a famine last month in the city of Gaza, north of the region, which was ruined last month, but other towns in the south are “quickly caught”.
“In the ground, it is clear that people are hunger, in the city of Gaza and that Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis emerged. [two southern cities in Gaza] Not far behind, Tess says Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesman who spent the last days in Gaza City.
Ingram said he was talking to a malnutrored mother, where he could not breastfeed his eight -month -old children.
“He and her husband were sharing a cup of rice a day. The situation is terrible,” Ingram added Ingram.
Gaza City, which was once an intensive commercial and cultural center, is now the target of a new Israeli attack that threatens to replace a million or more estimated inhabitants. Israeli officials described the city as the “castle ın of Hamas.
The Israeli army ordered the Palestinians to leave the city for the south before the attack, but never gave a schedule for the attack, which he had not previously declared before.
The attack threatens with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians for about two years of bombing, malnutrition and now weakening of famine. Many of them have been displaced before, some will have been released over and over again, and some Gaza City residents said they would refuse to endure again.
In May, Israel alleviated the two -month total blockade in the materials entering Gaza, but the materials were insufficient.
While UN agencies are trying to overcome great logistics difficulties to supply a small number of community kitchens and ovens, to maintain Israeli restrictions and bureaucratic obstacles, private commercial trucks carry limited amounts of rice, sugar, instant noodles and other dry foods. Fresh vegetables are rare and the cost of up to $ 50 (£ 37) for one kilo can cover a small number of prices.
“The story is the same – a bowl of community cuisine, almost always lentils or rice, shared between the family, they jump for parents to eat children. No food. No other option – help is scarce and market is very expensive,” he said.
The inhabitants explained to face a “impossible choice :: they hopes to stay in temporary houses in Gaza and to get rid of a possible Israeli attack or to escape to extremely crowded coastal areas with almost no service, water supply or health care.
Aid workers in al-Mawasi, the main coastal region appointed by Israel for those who escaped from the City of Gaza, say that hundreds of thousands of people have already packaged in sandy sand dunes and fields. Any land in any land that remains open is equivalent to 300 dollars per month, and there are very little space for newcomers.
“Water supply is insufficient, tents and shelters are very resistant, there is no garbage or solid waste disposal to speak, no one is completely suitable for human settlement,” al-Mawasi said.
Israeli officials blame the UN for not being able to distribute aid, and again claimed that Hamas had stealing most of the aid, but Internal US government report He said it wasn’t right.
Last month, the integrated food safety class classification (IPC), an global recognized organization that classifies the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition, was greeted with three basic thresholds for famine in Gaza.
Children are among the most vulnerable ones. From 2,000 in February, the records to UNICEF clinics in Gaza for five or six increased to 5,500 in May. It reached a total of more than 15,000 in July.
UNICEF scanned by the five -five period increased from 82,000 to 144,000 in the period. The most serious category, which is the most serious acute malnutrition, increased from 20 to 40 in March, but this fell from more than 50 peaks in the previous month.
Despite the opposition of the military high commander, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dependent on the new attack. Wide gaps between Israel’s demands and Hamas demands continue, and now no ceasefire does not seem possible.
The extreme -right members of the ruling coalition threatened to lower Netanyahu’s government if Israel compromised to bring back about 50 hostages thought to be alive.
On Friday, the Israeli Army said that Hamas will target a series of structures, especially used by high buildings.
“In the coming days [Israeli military] In the city of Gaza, it will hit the structures converted into terrorist infrastructure: cameras, observation command centers, sniper and anti -tank fire positions, command and control compounds. ”
Last week, the authorities said that Israel would stop air drops via Gaza City in the coming days and reduce the number of aid trucks coming to the north as new attack ramps increase and preparations for ordering hundreds of thousands of people to the south.
The UN and partners said that pauses, air signs and other measures have fallen far below 600 trucks needed in Gaza.
The current war began in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack on Israel, which often led to the abduction of 250 civilians. The following Israeli attack killed more than 63,000, mostly civilians, and destroyed most of Gaza.
CLEA Skopelitis contributed to this report
