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Relief supplies are difficult to get amid the intensifying fighting … “The number of Gazan women who have died since the start of the war reaches 9,000.”
Children in Gaza waiting for relief food supplies
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(Seoul, Geneva = Yonhap News) Reporter Yu Han-ju and Reporter Ahn Hee = At least 15 children have been found to have died of starvation in recent days amid the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, due to Israel’s ongoing military operations .
According to Reuters, the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health said in a statement on the 3rd (local time), “At least 15 children have died of malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip over the past few days.”
The Ministry of Health added, “Six other children are suffering from malnutrition and diarrhea in the intensive care unit of this hospital, and we are concerned for their lives due to the cut in power supply and weak medical capacity.”
It appears that the continued increase in cases of child hunger is not related to the situation where international organizations have found it difficult to provide relief supplies due to the intensification of fighting between the Israeli army and the Palestinian armed faction Hamas.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) explained that it has become very difficult to get food and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip as aid trucks are often not allowed to enter due to security reasons or border checkpoints that acting as access points. often temporarily closed.
UNRWA added that the number of relief goods trucks that entered the Gaza Strip last month was around 2,300, a decrease of almost 50% from the previous month in January.
The Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian disaster
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Ramesh Rajasingham, director general of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), previously assessed that the entire population of the Gaza Strip, 2.2 million people, was facing an ’emergency’ level of food insecurity.
Director Rajasingham found that 1.17 million of them were at the ’emergency’ level of food insecurity, and 500,000 at the ‘disaster’ level of food insecurity.
According to the severity of the food crisis, the UN classifies it into five levels: ‘Minor’, ‘Stressed’, ‘Emergency’, ‘Emergency’, and ‘Disaster/Famine’.
In this classification system, known as the Integrated Food Safety Level (IPC), levels 3 and above are considered acute food emergencies.
In particular, the UN estimates that most residents of northern Gaza, where it is more difficult to provide aid goods, have reached the worst level, which is level 5 (disaster/famine). This is because they do not have the ability to cope with the hunger or even support from those around them.
The United Nations pointed out that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza City, a key city in northern Gaza, is deepening as there is no electricity supply.
OCHA said, “In hospitals, electricity means life and death. There have been reports of newborn babies dying due to lack of electricity in incubators in medical facilities, and even mothers dying on the operating table as life-saving equipment failed. stop working.”
Gaza City is where disaster struck on the 29th of last month, killing over 100 residents and injuring hundreds more after a truck carrying relief supplies overcrowded.
According to China’s Xinhua News Agency, UN Women calculated that the number of women killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip has reached 9,000 since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
The United Nations analyzed that this equates to an average of 63 women being murdered every day, including 37 women with children.
The UN also added that, as a result, families are breaking up in the Gaza Strip and protection for children is weakening.
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