Gaza is on the verge of famine, as the ongoing blockade affects the flow of human aid, including food, medical and necessary supply. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the entire population of 2.1 million, and about half a million, has already become the world’s worst hunger crisis, about half a million.
In a statement released on Monday, the WHO said, “The threat of famine in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate ban of humanitarian aid, including food, in the blockade. The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing a shortage of food for a long time, in which about half a million people are staring in a surface of Huar, a kind of death, which is a kind of death, a kind of death, in a way, in a different way, in a different In various ways, there is a type of death in real time.
The latest Food Safety Analysis was issued today by the Integrated Food Safety Stage Classification (IPC) partnership, which is the member of which.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Gabrisus stressed that Gaza is already in the grip of a hunger crisis and said that people are dying of hunger, falling ill, and dying, while living a few minutes away from the border of food and medicine.
“We do not need to wait for the declaration of famine in Gaza, to find out that people are already hungry, sick and dying, while food and medicines are at a few minutes away on the border. The analysis released today shows that without immediate access to food and necessary supply, the situation will deteriorate, which will lead to more deaths and falls in the famine.
Since the assistance blockade began on 2 March, according to the Ministry of Health, 57 children have allegedly died of malnutrition effects. This number is a low and is likely to grow. If the situation persists, according to the IPC report, about 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be malnourished in the next eleven months.
The WHO further stated that pregnant and breastfeeding mothers also have a high risk of malnutrition, requiring treatment for intense malnutrition in the next eleven months with an expected of about 17,000, if the strict condition does not change.
“Malnuting mothers struggle to produce enough nutritious milk, put their children at risk, while there is a huge compromise in delivery of counseling services for mothers. For infants under six months of age, breast milk is their best protection against hunger and disease – especially where clean water is rare, as is in Gaza, what is in Gaza. (AI)