The UN today called on the world to “flood” Gaza with aid to save starving children after visiting two hospitals for the first time since the war began in October.
“Children are starting to die of hunger. This is not a danger warning like the others,” Jens Lerke, spokesman for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said today.
According to APE, the World Health Organization spoke of alarming scenes of starving children after delivering aid to two hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip last weekend for the first time since October.
Doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza’s only pediatric hospital, told the UN team that “at least ten children died of starvation,” Ahmed Dahir, the head of the mission, told a press conference in Geneva via video link from the Palestinian territory. which the war is raging.
Since then, Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas, has said the number of children who have died in hospital from malnutrition and dehydration has reached 15, and that six infants suffering from acute malnutrition are at high risk.
“If not now, when will it be time to flood Gaza with the aid it needs? We have to see it happen,” Lerke emphasized.
.@WHO on the situation in #Gaza:
«There is a risk of famine, there is a risk of diease, there is an enormous amount of desperation.
The scarcity has led to regular breakdowns of law and order.
We need sustained humanitarian access and a deconfliction mechanism which works.» pic.twitter.com/EhHcZjJuLM
— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) March 5, 2024
#Appeal #aid #Gaza #save #starving #children
