Gaza is starving. The Gazati government, in the hands of Hamas, has warned this Saturday that More than 100,000 two -year -old children, including 40,000 babies under one year oldthey face “the threat of a massive death in a matter of days”, Before the shortage of formula milk and nutritional supplementshe said in a statement released by his media office.
“We face an expected and deliberate massacre that they are slowly perpetrating against babies whose mothers have been feeding them with water instead of children’s formula for days, as a result of the famine and extermination policy implemented by the Israeli occupation, “he collects the note.
In the last 24 hours, S, according to medical sources of the enclave. In total, since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in the strip, a total of 127 people have starved to hunger for those who 85 were children.
In this sense, the Gazatí government warns that in recent days hospitals and health centers have registered a daily increase in cases of serious and “potentially mortal” malnutrition without the capacity to respond or treat them due to the collapse of the health sector and the lack of medical and food resources“.
“We demand the immediate entry of children’s formula and nutritional supplements to the Gaza Strip; the immediate and unconditional opening of the border crossings; the total lifting of the criminal block and urgent international action to stop this slow chamber massacre,” concludes the statement.
Malnutrition among children under five are doubled between March and June
The UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA, for its acronym in English) had already been warning that malnutrition among children under five years had doubled between March and June, As a result of the Israeli block of the Gaza Strip.
According to COGAT, the Israeli agency in charge of civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, UN agencies and other organizations distributed about 100 humanitarian trucks in the strip on Friday without giving more details, collects the Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel.
During this morning, however, army shots killed about 24 people and left more than 300 injured near Zikim’s military post, northwest of the city of Beit Lahia, while waiting for the arrival of trucks with help, the Shifa hospital reported
