Latest news with #malnutrition
Al Arabiya
20 minutes ago
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- Al Arabiya
Children dying of starvation in Gaza as Israeli assault continues
In this episode of W News Extra, presented by Jono Hayes, we cover a range of stories, including the war in Gaza, where the head of the Palestinian territory's largest hospital says 21 children have died from malnutrition and starvation over the past three days, as Israel continues its devastating assault. Guests: Freddy Gray – Deputy editor, The Spectator
RNZ News
an hour ago
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- RNZ News
Fifteen people, including baby, die of starvation in Gaza in one day, medics say
Palestinian children queue for a portion of hot food distributed by a charity kitchen in Gaza City, on July 20, 2025. Photo: Majdi Fathi A six-week-old baby was among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month war. The infant died at a hospital ward in northern Gaza, the health officials said, naming him as Yousef al-Safadi. His uncle, Adham al-Safadi, told news agency Reuters Yousef's family couldn't find baby formula to feed him. "You can't get milk anywhere, and if you do find any it's $100 for a tub," he said, looking at his dead nephew. Three of the others were also children, including 13-year-old Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, who died in a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. The other two children were not named. Palestinian health officials say at least 101 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, with most of them in recent weeks. Israel controls all aid supplies into the war-ravaged enclave, where most of the population has been displaced multiple times and faces acute shortages of basic necessities. Israel's handling of aid in the Palestinian enclave has been sharply criticised , with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday joining the foreign ministers of 27 other countries in calling for an immediate end to the conflict and an increase in the flow of aid. Shelling killed another 16 people living in tents in Gaza City on Tuesday, as Israeli troops launched attacks across the strip, health officials said. The Israeli military said it was not aware of any incident, or artillery in the area at that time. Gaza's health ministry said at least 72 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes in the past 24 hours. Israel says its assault on Gaza aims to destroy Hamas, which waged the deadliest attack in Israel's history on 7 October, 2023, killing at least 1200 Israelis including civilians, by its tallies. Israeli bombs and gunfire have killed nearly 60,000 people in Gaza since then, according to local health authorities. An elderly woman holds out an empty pot at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2025. Photo: AFP / EYAD BABA The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency said on Tuesday that its staff, as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, were fainting on duty in Gaza due to hunger and exhaustion . "No one is spared: caretakers in Gaza are also in need of care. Doctors, nurses, journalists and humanitarians are hungry," UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement. There has been international condemnation of mass killings of civilians and dire shortages of aid in Gaza, but no action that has yet stopped the conflict, or significantly increased supplies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that images of civilians killed during the distribution of aid were "unbearable" and urged Israel to deliver on pledges to improve the situation, but did not say what action European countries would take. Israel's military said that it "views the transfer of humanitarian aid into Gaza as a matter of utmost importance", and works to facilitate its entry in coordination with the international community. It has denied accusations it is preventing aid from reaching Gaza and has accused Palestinian militant group Hamas of stealing food, an allegation Hamas denies. Daily food gathering has become a deadly task for Gazans, with one UN agency estimating that more than 1000 people have died while trying to receive food aid since May. Israeli military statistics showed on Tuesday that an average of 146 trucks of aid per day had entered Gaza over the course of the war. The United States has said a minimum of 600 trucks per day are needed to feed Gaza's population. -Reuters
South China Morning Post
an hour ago
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- South China Morning Post
Gaza ‘horror show': 21 children die from starvation and malnutrition amid Israel offensive
The head of Gaza's largest hospital on Tuesday said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, while Israel pressed a devastating assault. Advertisement Gaza's population of more than two million people is facing severe shortages of food and other essentials, with residents frequently killed as they try to collect humanitarian aid at a handful of distribution points. 'Twenty-one children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in various areas across the Gaza Strip,' Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, told reporters. Abu Salmiya told reporters that new cases of malnutrition and starvation were arriving at Gaza's remaining functioning hospitals 'every moment'. 'We are heading towards alarming numbers of deaths due to the starvation inflicted on the people of Gaza,' he added. Advertisement UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Gaza a 'horror show' in a speech on Tuesday, with 'a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times'.
LBCI
an hour ago
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- LBCI
Gaza hospital says 21 children died from malnutrition and starvation in 72 hours
The head of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday said that 21 children had died across the Palestinian territory in the past three days "due to malnutrition and starvation." "These deaths were recorded at hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa in Gaza City, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah and Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis... over the past 72 hours," Mohammed Abu Salmiya told reporters.
BBC News
2 hours ago
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- BBC News
Gaza health ministry says 33 people died from malnutrition in 48 hours
At least 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, have died as a result of malnutrition across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry has deaths of 11 adults and four children were reported over the past day, a spokesman told the came as UN Secretary General António Guterres told the UN Security Council that "malnutrition is soaring" and "starvation is knocking on every door" in 2.1 million population is facing grave shortages of basic supplies, he said, and Israel has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian assistance by the UN and its partners. Israel, which controls Gaza's crossings, has insisted that it acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring it does not reach journalists, including the BBC, are blocked by Israel from entering Gaza independently, so it is difficult to verify the number of reported malnutrition footage filmed by a local Palestinian journalist working for the BBC at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah showed the emaciated body of a man called Ahmed al-Hasanat, who doctors said had died from malnutrition on Tuesday. Health officials said a 13-year-old boy, Abdul Hamid al-Ghalban, also died in the southern city of Khan Younis. Photos from AFP and Anadolu news agencies showed the teenager's small body being prepared for burial at Nasser hospital and then carried in a white media meanwhile posted a video showing the body of a six-week-old boy, Yousef al-Safadi, who health officials said died at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City due to US-based medical humanitarian group MedGlobal also said in a statement that its nutritional teams in Gaza had witnessed five severely malnourished children, aged between three months and four years old, die within the past three days."This is a deliberate and human-made disaster," MedGlobal's executive director, Joseph Belliveau, said. "Those children died because there is not enough food in Gaza and not enough medicines, including IV fluids and therapeutic formula, to revive them."MedGlobal said that since the beginning of July, cases of acutely malnourished, mainly children, had nearly tripled at its facilities, indicating a widespread food UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) also said that it was receiving "SOS" messages from its staff in Gaza, saying they were desperately short of food. Some Unrwa doctors and aid workers had reportedly been fainting while working, due to hunger and exhaustion, it this week, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that malnutrition was surging, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment, and that nearly one person in three was not eating for noted that food aid was the only way for most people to access any food because prices in local markets had skyrocketed. It said a 1kg (2.2lb) bag of flour now cost over $100 (£74).The WFP called for a "massive scale-up in food aid distribution" and said it had food supplies nearby and teams on the ground ready to UN says a minimum of 600 aid lorries a day need to enter Gaza. However, the UN Organisation for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was only permitted to bring in 1,600 lorries of aid between May and July - an average of around 27 per Israeli foreign ministry said on Sunday that it had allowed 4,400 lorry loads of aid to enter Gaza over the past two months, and that 700 loads were waiting to be picked up by UN agencies from crossing UN has said that it struggles to pick up and distribute supplies because of the ongoing hostilities, Israeli restrictions on humanitarian movements, and fuel shortages. Israel imposed a total blockade of aid deliveries to Gaza at the start of March and resumed its military offensive against Hamas two weeks later, collapsing a two-month ceasefire. It said it wanted to put pressure on the armed group to release its remaining Israeli the blockade was partially eased in late May, amid warnings of a looming famine from global experts, the shortages of food, medicine and fuel have grown have also been almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed while seeking aid since Israel and the US helped to establish a new aid system to bypass the existing one overseen by the new system, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), started at the end of May, and uses US private security contractors to hand out food parcels from sites inside Israeli military says the system prevents supplies from being stolen by the UN and its partners have refused to co-operate with the GHF, saying it is unsafe and violates the humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, and Tuesday, the UN human rights office said that it had recorded the killing of 766 people by the Israeli military in the vicinity of the GHF's aid sites since they began operating eight weeks ago. Another 288 killings had been recorded along routes of UN and other aid convoys."We are seeing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles," António Guterres told the UN Security Council. "This system is being denied the conditions to function, denied the space to deliver, denied the safety to save lives."He also said that the Israeli military's intensifying operations and evacuation orders in Deir al-Balah meant "devastation is being layered upon devastation".On Monday night, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the Israeli ground operation in Deir al-Balah had compromised its efforts to continue working, after its staff residence and main warehouse came under Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. At least 59,106 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.
