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Gaza boy dies of malnutrition caused by Israeli-imposed starvation

Friday, 14 June 2024 9:30 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 14 June 2024 9:30 AM ]

10-year-old Palestinian boy Mustafa Hijazi starves to death in the central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2024.

A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has lost his life due to malnutrition caused by Israel’s crime of deliberate starvation of people in the Gaza Strip.

Reporting on Friday, local media identified the victim as Mustafa Hijazi, saying he died at the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had documented 32 deaths in Gaza attributed to malnutrition since early October, including 28 among children under the age of 5.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “A significant proportion of Gaza’s population is now facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions.”

He added that there were more than 8,000 children under 5 who been diagnosed and treated for acute malnutrition, including 1,600 with severe acute malnutrition.

“Our inability to provide health services safely, combined with the lack of clean water and sanitation, significantly increases the risk of malnourished children,” he warned.

Israeli war afflicted 8,000 under-5 children with acute malnutrition: WHO

The World Health Organization says Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has afflicted over 8,000 children, who are under five years of age, with acute malnutrition.

Hossam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahia, said famine is looming in north Gaza, where over 200,000 Palestinian children have shown symptoms of malnutrition.

"There are no food items available in the northern Gaza Strip other than flour," he told al-Arabi TV.

"I am sending a distress call to all international institutions to take the threat of famine seriously."

Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 37,232 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 85,037 others in the besieged Gaza.

Israel is deliberately blocking and delaying the flow of food, medicines and basic supplies into Gaza and using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

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