U.N. says malnutrition deaths increasing across Gaza
發佈日期: 2025-07-26 21:32
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The United Nations and experts say that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.
Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting at the border and blames the U.N. for not doing enough to distribute the supplies.
Two-year-old Yazan Abu Ful's ribs protrude from his emaciated body. His mother and his father, also showing signs of extreme hunger.
Nothing to eat or drink and supplies either expensive or absent. "What is his fault?" asks his father Mahmoud. "Did this boy carry a rocket and go to fight the Israelis?"
Five deaths related to starvation have been recorded so far in July at this centre for malnourished children in Gaza City. Malnutrition is growing by the day across Gaza
"It is very catastrophic in Gaza, from bad to worse," said Dr. Rana Soboh, a nutritionist with U.S.-based aid organisation MedGlobal.
"We are not done with July, and we have already had five deaths," she said.
The United Nations says the situation is catastrophic and worsening. Palestinians seeking aid at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supply stations are still being killed while thousands of U.N. trucks are waiting at crossings.
"Our teams are in place to ramp up delivery as soon as we are allowed to do so," said Stephanie Tremblay, spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General. "As you will recall, during the last ceasefire, tens of thousands of truckloads entered Gaza, with food aid reaching nearly every single person in the Strip. What is missing right now is safe, sustained access. Aid workers face constant danger, crossings are unreliable, and critical items are routinely blocked. If Israel opens the crossings, lets fuel and equipment in, and allows humanitarian staff to operate safely, we will accelerate the delivery of food aid."
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a joint statement demanding Israel allow unrestricted aid into Gaza to end the "humanitarian catastrophe."
Meanwhile, in Khan Younis in the south, funerals were held for Palestinians killed while trying to claim aid from trucks, as well as victims of Israeli airstrikes.
One distraught family member of a 17-year-old who was killed near an aid truck said: "He went to get a bag of flour, he was martyred because of a bag of flour."
