More than five months into Israel’s ground and air campaign, launched in response to Hamas’ October 7 attack, there are widespread shortages of food, medicines and clean water in Gaza, doctors and aid agencies say. — Reuters picGAZA, March 19 — Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down.
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward. Reuters was not able to independently verify the deaths reported by the ministry. Following the IPC review, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy posted on X that the number of food trucks had increased in March and that Israel was taking measures to bolster “delivery efforts” to the north.The White House referred Reuters to comments from National Security advisor Jake Sullivan, who said responsibility to address impending famine “starts, first and foremost, with Israel.”
When the war began, she said, the family fled their home in al-Nasr district of Gaza City, which suffered widespread damage from bombardment. They were displaced four times before arriving in Beit Lahia, she added. The Gaza health ministry says lack of medication contributed to the deterioration of the conditions of the children who died.
“Unless fighting stops and aid agencies have full access throughout Gaza then hundreds if not thousands more children could die of hunger,” Unicef executive director Catherine Russell said on Tuesday in a joint statement with the World Food Programme. Cogat told Reuters that Israel was making “extensive efforts to increase the amount of aid that enters Gaza,” above and beyond its obligations.At al-Awda health centre in Rafah, more than a dozen women sat or stood tending their malnourished children.
“I know she’s hungry. The food she eats isn’t available,” she said, adding that every day “I die one hundred times” feeling sad for her daughter.Disease is aggravating the dire lack of food. Dehydration from diarrhoea, which the World Health Organisation says is rampant in the mass tent cities where displaced people cram together without proper sewage or clean water, hastens malnutrition.
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