One in 5 children in Gaza City malnourished: UN aid agency

United News of India

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Gaza City, July 25 (UNI) One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day,
the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) said.
In a statement issued today, Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini cited a colleague telling him:
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups have also warned of mass starvation -
pressing for governments to take action, reports BBC News.
On other hand, Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, refuted the claim of a siege in the
territory and instead, blamed Hamas for any cases of malnutrition.
The UN, however, has warned that the level of aid getting into Gaza is "a trickle" and the hunger crisis in the
territory "has never been so dire".
In his statement, Lazzarini further said, "more than 100 people, the vast majority of them children, have
reportedly died of hunger".
On Wednesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had said that a large proportion of the population of
Gaza was "starving".
"I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation - and it's man-made," remarked the head of
the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
In northern parts of Gaza, Israel stopped aid deliveries to Gaza in early March following a two-month ceasefire. The blockade was partially eased after nearly two months, but food, fuel and medicine shortages worsened.Hanaa Almadhoun (40), maintained that local markets are often without food and other supplies.
The blockade was partially eased after nearly two months, but food, fuel and medicine shortages worsened.
According to the UN human rights office, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military
while trying to get food aid over the past two months.
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