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1 in 5 children in Gaza is malnourished, UN aid agency says
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Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both claiming it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal.
Doctors and aid workers inside Gaza are reporting the highest levels of malnutrition in children they have ever seen as the hunger crisis reportedly continues to worsen.
After four months of near-total siege by Israel, people in Gaza are starving. The United Nations says at least one in three people are going multiple days without eating, and death from hunger is on the rise.
As Gaza’s hunger crisis deepens, doctors, the very people who are trying to keep the gravely malnourished population alive, are suffering along with their patients.
Dozens of people have starved to death in Gaza the last few weeks, according to local health authorities. Israel, which cut off all supplies to Gaza from the start of March and reopened it with new restrictions in May,
Israel is permitting supplies to enter the territory in quantities catastrophically insufficient for its approximately 2 million residents.
Israeli ground troops for the first time have pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based.