NEW YORK(Palestine Foundation Information Center) Following a visit to Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in southern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that “children are dying of hunger in the two hospitals.”
The Organization added, “there are severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed.”
WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said, “the visits over the weekend were the first since early October 2023 despite our efforts to gain more regular access to the north of Gaza.”
The situation at Al-Awda Hospital is particularly appalling, as one of the buildings is destroyed.
Kamal Adwan Hospital is the only pediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza, and is overwhelmed with patients. The lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children. The lack of electricity poses a serious threat to patient care, especially in critical areas like the intensive care unit and the neonatal unit.
Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging its aggression against the Gaza Strip, with US and European support, leading to the martyrdom of 30,534 citizens and the injury of 71,920 others, in addition to the displacement of about 85 percent of the population of the Strip, according to local authorities and international bodies and organizations.
The death toll of child martyrs as a result of malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip rose to 16 martyrs, 15 of whom in northern Gaza.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that northern Gaza hospitals are incapable of providing life-saving services.
For its part, UNRWA said, commenting on the killing of 16 children in the Gaza Strip as a result of drought and malnutrition, that children in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly, while the world is idly watching.
