Over the past four months, nearly 19,000 children in Gaza were hospitalized for acute malnutrition due to Israel’s starvation campaign, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported.
This is almost double the number of acute malnutrition cases among children in Gaza in the first six months of 2024, the agency reports; at that time, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) head had said that northern Gaza was under a “full-blown famine” because of Israel’s brutal humanitarian aid blockade.
UNRWA reported on Sunday that one of their only remaining functional health centers has only six boxes of baby formula left to distribute, despite thousands of babies in need — and that was the first shipment of baby food the agency reviewed in three months, the group said.
“It has been 14 months. People here really are surviving on bread, lentils, food in tin cans. We are not seeing fruit and vegetables around. We are not seeing people with families and children get the nutrients that they need,” said UNRWA emergency officer Louise Wateridge last week.
Israel’s aid blockade is causing health effects that will compound for decades to come. The UN Population Fund for Palestine recently reported that there are 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza who lack essentials like food, water and hygiene supplies. According to the group, 8,000 of these women are among the 345,000 people in Gaza facing “famine-like conditions.”
Abhorrent and USA looks away.
The US is an active participant, making hundreds of billions in weapons sales to perform the genocide. Without US support and weapons, there may have been no genocide.
Israelis in 10 years: “the terrorists hate us because we are Jewish”.
Motherfuckers created the conditions to prolong the cycle of violence for another generation or two and are still so far up their ass with their own victimization that they don’t even realize what they’ve done. Mind you, the original founders of Israel, the ones who survived the actual Holocaust, had more empathy for the Palestinians than these idiots. At least they, while performing the Nakba, recognized that their victims were people and cried some crocodile tears. This generation of Israelis refuse to even think of Palestinians as humans. They are not even hypocritical about it any more.
(Minus a brave minority that stands up for what’s right, and faces the abuse of the majority of course.)
Putting aside whether October 7th was a response to ongoing suffering as it was…
At what point does the response to October 7th become worse than than the original attack? Because I’m pretty sure we passed that within months if not weeks of the original attack.
Anyways up is down and war is peace, I guess. This next decade is about to make the 2000s Bush & Iraq days look civil and law-abiding by contrast.
The thing is you can’t treat starvation with medicine or hospital beds. The only thing that actually improves the situation is to supply food, lots of food.
The only true solution to this problem is that the so-called developed world starts dispatching lots and lots and lots of food to Gaza right now.
They have hospitals?
