United Nations-. The growing food crisis in Gaza has led to starvation for a quarter of the Palestinian population in the strip, where food insecurity is now desperate, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed.
This Friday, the UN health agency reported the deaths of 10 children due to malnutrition and dehydration, underlining repeated warnings from humanitarian organizations about the difficult nutritional situation in this Palestinian enclave.
WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said it was “a very sad sign, unfortunately higher unofficial numbers are to be expected.”
According to press reports, the ten minors died at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip and at Al-Shifa Hospital in the city in that strip.
For his part, the spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Laerke, explained that although the official declaration of famine depends on complex technical criteria, the situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly. He said that once famine is recognized, it is too late for many people, recalling that in practice half a million people are already suffering from it, there is no commercial flow of food, trucks with humanitarian aid are entering Dropper and many of these have difficulty circulating internally.
“People are so desperately looking for food, for fresh water, for any supplies that they are risking their lives to get food, supplies for their children or for themselves,” denounced Lindmeier, a representative of the WHO.
“Food and supplies are so scarce that we are experiencing situations like this. And the food supply was deliberately interrupted. Let’s not forget that,” he said.