Four -year -old Gazaner dies of hunger in acute food crisis

Four -year -old Gazaner dies of hunger in acute food crisis

The four -year -old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for survival on Sunday. She died in a hospital in the central Gaza of the consequences of Hunger and malnutrition, as a medical report. Your lean body was spread out on a stone block.

The sad record of the malnutritioned children

Since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023, at least 76 children in Gaza have died of malnutrition, as well as ten adults. The World Health Organization reports that most of these deaths are due to the fact that the Israeli authorities imposed a blockade at the beginning of March.

The effects of the conflict on the children

razan was one of at least four children who died in the past three days, including the youngest, who was only three months old. According to the Ministry of Health, 18 deaths have been recorded over the last 24 hours due to hunger in Gaza, which is reflected in the area in the area.

cnn hit Razan for the first time a month ago. At that time it was already weak and had lost a lot of weight. At the time, her mother, Tahrir Abu, explained that she had no money for milk that was rarely available anyway. "Your health was very good before the war, but after the war her condition began to deteriorate due to malnutrition. There is nothing to strengthen it."

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza

razan died in the middle of growing famine in Gaza, since the river of humanitarian aid has been greatly reduced since the beginning of March when the Israeli authorities of convoys denied access to Gaza. This lock was partially canceled at the end of May, but aid organizations report inadequate quantities that could support the population.

Israel said that it had stopped delivering aid goods to Gaza because Hamas would steal and benefit from it - an assertion that Hamas rejects. Israeli bodies also say that the United Nations have not picked up any relief goods collecting transports in Gaza, while the UN replies that Israeli troops often refuse approval for the movement of relief goods within Gazas and that much more is waiting to be able to enter.

growing hardship and despair

Before the conflict began in October 2023, Gaza was strongly dependent on humanitarian aid and commercial food deliveries. Since then, the scarcity of food, medical supplies, fuel and other necessities has only tightened. This shortage of food has led to a rapidly growing number of people being brought to already overloaded hospitals.

“Gaza experiences the worst phases of hunger that have adopted catastrophic proportions, while the international community remains in unprecedented silence,” said Dr. Khalil al-Daqran, the spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Märdyrer Hospital, in which Razan died. Al-Daqran explained that the infants who are now dying were cheated for their childhood-“once by bombing and killings, and again by refusing them and a piece of bread.”

increasing death figures and appeals to auxiliary calls

The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that an “unprecedented number of hungry citizens of all ages arrives in serious exhaustion and fatigue states in the emergency rooms.” "Hundreds whose bodies are strongly weakened are now in acute danger to survive due to hunger and the inability of their bodies," added the ministry.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, an NGO that works in Gaza, reported on Sunday that one of her team members in Gaza said: “Our faces have changed, and our bodies are embarrassed. We no longer recognize ourselves because of extreme emaciation, as if we are slowly fading and dying.”

dr. Suhaib al-Hams, director of the Kuwaiti Feldkrankenhaus in khan Younis told CNN that the people who arrive there urgently need food in front of medication, since their bodies have reached a point where they can no longer withstand and are all threatened by death. ”

aid organizations in emergency

“Today the World Central Kitchen has set the delivery of meals for the medical staff, they only broadcast rice. Doctors work 24 hours a day without food, neither at home nor in the hospital. People die of hunger," said al-Hams on Sunday.

The World Central Kitchen confirmed that their teams in Gaza no longer had any ingredients to prepare warm meals. "We spent 80,000 meals on Saturday and used up our last supplies, while auxiliary transports are stuck at the border. This is the second time that the lack of access to help our kitchen operations forces to stand up," she added.

dangers for the population

In their despair, thousands of people jeopardize their lives every day to find something to eat. On Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health, more than 70 people in northern Gazas were reported who were killed while desperately looking for food aid; They are said to have been shot by Israeli troops.

The Israeli defense forces said that their troops in the area had "made warning shots to remove an immediate threat." The IDF is aware of the reports of victims in the area, and the details of the incident are still being examined.

“A first review suggests that the number of reported victims does not match the information available to the IDF," they added.

dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa Hospital, where many of the victims are treated, said that “a considerable number of civilians and even medical staff in a state of fainting or collapse due to severe malnutrition.”

spectacular losses during the help campaigns

Almost 800 Palestinians were killed between the end of May and July 7, while trying to gain access to relief goods in Gaza, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ohchr). During this period, the killings of 798 people were recorded, including 615 near controversial locations of the US-supported gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF) . Another 183 people were killed “on the routes of the auxiliary convoys” without details about the people who had led these transports.

In the meantime, other dozens of people have been killed since then, including more than 30 in the south of Gazas on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. Tom Fletcher, the UN Nothilfekoordinator, said on Thursday before the UN Security Council that foods were running out in Gaza. "Those who are looking for them to risk being shot. People die while trying to feed their families."

He said that the malnutrition rates among children had reached their highest values in June with more than 5,800 boys and girls who were diagnosed as acute malnutrition. The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian matters reported on Friday that “deeply worrying reports on malnourished children and adults who are brought to hospitals with little resources.”

On Saturday, Sarmad Tamimy, a plastic surgeon who works voluntarily with Medical Aid for Palestinians, explained to CNN: “To be honest, I think the lucky dying immediately because they do not have to be exposed to the terrible horror with which they are confronted - with their serious injuries, inadequate nutrition, inadequate medical supplies and hospitalized Infections. ”