Hospital records 50 malnourished children in northern Gaza

GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center)  A hospital in northern Gaza has recorded 50 Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition in just one week.

Husam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, reported the figure in a statement issued on Sunday.

“The health system in Gaza is a target of the [Israeli] occupation, but we are trying to resume medical services at a minimum despite fuel shortages,” Abu Safiya said.

He noted that “the situation is catastrophic in the Strip,” stressing that “the specter of famine looms over the Gaza Strip.”

According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), nine out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute food poverty.

“Five rounds of data collected between December 2023 and April 2024 have consistently found that 9 out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip are experiencing severe food poverty, surviving on two or fewer food groups per day,” UNICEF said in a recent report.