Gaza - Saba:
The starvation of children in Gaza on Wednesday is no longer a metaphor. It has become a deadly reality, produced by the crimes of genocide and starvation imposed by the Israeli enemy on more than a million starving children in the besieged Strip.
As a result of the brutal starvation policy pursued by the Israeli enemy, the children of Gaza, whose bodies have been emaciated by hunger, are threatened with a slow death.
The Palestinian Information Center monitors the lives of Gaza's children under siege, amid the devastation caused by the Israeli enemy. This photo shows a starving Palestinian girl sleeping under a tattered blanket in a shelter in the northern Gaza Strip.
The starving child's mother has nothing to feed her but dry bread crumbs, and the only words to silence her starving daughter's cries are the silence of another starving mother.
The World Food Program has documented more than 1,700 deaths among children since January 2024 due to hunger and lack of healthcare.
According to the UN program's statistics, 90% of children in the Gaza Strip suffer from severe malnutrition, 82% of them go to bed hungry every night, and 34% of children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition.
Malnutrition is evident in children's thin bodies, sunken eyes, and hair loss, and even more so in the mental and psychological deterioration of children whose only crime is that a brutal Zionist killer lurks around them.
Infant mortality has risen alarmingly in the starving Gaza Strip, due to the lack of infant formula and the decline in mothers' natural milk production as a result of the starvation crimes perpetrated by the Israeli enemy.
In a statistic no less disastrous than the previous one, deaths of children under the age of five increased by 45% compared to last year.
While 68% of Gazan families rely on one meal or less per day, in many cases they forgo this meal in favor of their starving children.
The psychological effects of the Israeli enemy on children are no less severe than the suffering they suffer from hunger.
According to UN reports, thousands of children suffer from serious psychological disorders, most notably anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, amid a near-total absence of psychological support and care programs.
Starvation in Gaza is not natural. Rather, it is a genocide committed by a brutal enemy with American partnership, Western complicity, and suspicious international silence.
The Israeli enemy is killing starving children seeking food outside aid centers, a crime it shares with the United States, just as it kills many others seeking aid.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has revealed shocking testimonies from young boys released by Israeli forces after being arrested while trying to obtain food aid, facing the "death traps" it operates in partnership with Washington.
Amid all the Zionist starvation and genocide targeting children in Gaza, a faint humanitarian voice emerges, one that does not measure up to the scale of the crime. This voice calls for the rescue of the starving children of the Gaza Strip, the immediate opening of humanitarian crossings, funding of nutrition programs, and the provision of baby formula and nutritional supplements.
A UN report revealed that of the 14,750 children in Gaza suffering from malnutrition, 3,288 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
According to a report by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Tuesday, the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition has risen to 188, including 94 children.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been facing an unprecedented wave of hunger since the Israeli enemy closed the Strip's crossings in early March and imposed severe restrictions on the entry of food, relief aid, fuel, and medicine.
Over time, Gaza residents have exhausted all food supplies, and shops have become empty. Finding a loaf of bread has become almost impossible, while available goods have seen skyrocketing prices. Death by starvation has become one of the most severe causes of death in the Strip.
The Israeli enemy's crimes against Palestinians waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip have continued daily since the implementation of the "Israeli-American" mechanism, overseen by the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," on May 27.
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