Mai Abu Arar, 7, has only skin and bones left.
As the Israeli military intensifies its assault on Gaza City, tens of thousands of children in Gaza are currently suffering from malnutrition.
Nadia Abu Arar, Mai’s mother, claims her young daughter was once lively and joyful, but she is now fighting for her life after shedding a lot of pounds.
She is not a patient with any diseases or previous conditions, according to the doctors. They claim that the situation is all due to malnutrition, and Nadia claims that nothing has changed in her situation.
Mai can no longer consume liquid food through a syringe because of her weight.
Israel has been preventing the delivery of medicines to the enclave, according to Hisham Abu Al Oun, the patient’s friend hospital in Gaza City. This has made it challenging to treat malnourished patients.
The simplest medication that a doctor can prescribe is potassium chloride. That is all that exists. Because of lack, we have babies who die. Unfortunately, there are very few supplies when they arrive, he said.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a hunger monitor supported by the UN, announced for the first time that northern Gaza is experiencing famine.
At least 289 people have died in the enclave as a result of starvation, including 115 children.
Palestinians risk their lives by attempting to reach aid sites deep inside areas that the Israeli military controls, with the exception of a small amount of food that is delivered via airdrops and the United States-backed organization GHF.
Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “hell in all shapes,” according to Philippe Lazzarini, the UN’s head of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
“This will be with us forever.” The most offensive dehumanization is denial, according to a statement from Lazzarini.
“It’s time for the Israeli government to stop supporting a different narrative, stop supporting international journalists, and allow international journalists to report independently from Gaza,” the statement read.
The IPC claimed in its report that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Israel caused at least 1.9 million people to flee twice as a result of a man-made famine.
According to Liz Allcock, a rights advocate for Palestinians in Gaza, hunger is affecting everyone there.
It occurs daily throughout the entire [Gaza] Strip. Children and young children are also at risk, as are elderly people who cannot eat any kind of food. Additionally, she said, there are also healthcare staff and aid workers who are giving up on the job because they lack the necessary food to continue.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly disputed that Gaza’s residents are starving, blaming Hamas and aid organizations for failing to provide supplies to residents.
Source: Aljazeera
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