Children in Gaza live on “less than a meal per day”: relief groups Gaza News

About 95 percent of relief groups suspended or reduced their services due to Israeli bombing and the siege.

He left the siege of Israel and the bombing of Gaza is the tape Palestinian children Stay alive on less than one meal per day, according to an urgent warning by the leaders of 12 major relief sets in the pocket.

The joint statement said on Thursday that the Gaza humanitarian aid system “faces complete collapse” due to 18 months of Israel’s military operation and its recent imposition of the full siege last month.

He added that 95 percent of the 43 -year -old international and Palestinian relief groups have already arrested or reduced their services in Gaza, amid a large -scale and random bombing, which makes it very dangerous to move.

“Children eat less than a meal per day and are struggling to find their next meal,” said Boucharta Khalil, head of the OxFam Group Policy Group. “Everyone who eats canned food is purely … malnutrition and famine pockets certainly occurs in Gaza.”

Amande Bazerolle, Emergency Coordinator in Gaza, told doctors without limits, that relief workers were forced to watch people, many of whom are women and childrenHe suffers and dies while carrying “the impossible burden of providing relief with exhausted supplies.”

She said: “This is not a human failure – it is a political choice, and a deliberate attack on the people’s ability to survive, and carry out without punishment.”

In Gaza City, Hani Mahmoud from Al -Jazeera reported on Friday that the pocket was running out of the child’s formula, leaving the children and infants.

Mahmoud said: “We have seen many cases of severe malnutrition. Families are unable to provide their basic needs, even for the most vulnerable – children alone.” Gaza is rapidly running out of all necessities, “Mahmoud said.

The Palestinians told the Al -Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al -Ruhrien Al -Jazeera that they were losing their children due to malnutrition.

Fadi Ahmed, who lost his son, said that the hospital staff discovered “an enormous infection in my boy’s lungs, which led to a severe lack of oxygen in his blood.”

“The boy’s weakness and severe malnutrition led to his inability to resist and then until his death … After spending one week in the hospital.”

Intisar Hamdan, Jeddah, said that she lost her grandson because his parents were unable to find any milk for three days.

“Children not only suffer from malnutrition, but also complications and serious medical diseases that cannot be easily treated and require rare medical supplies.”

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, At least 60,000 children Malnutrition is considered in the Palestinian territories.

Relief groups said that Gaza maintains a record of being “the bloodiest on the ground for human workers”, which makes it difficult to provide services to children.

Since October 2023, more than 400 relief workers have been killed and 1,300 health workers in Gaza, despite the condition under international humanitarian law Human and health workers To be protected.

He added: “The last killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, whose bodies were found buried in a mass grave, have sparked global anger, but many violations and attacks were not reported.”

Relief groups invite Israel and the Palestinian Armed Group to ensure the safety of its employees and allow “unrestricted aid to Gaza and through it, and world leaders must oppose more restrictions on aid.