US EditionBritish Doctor Claims IDF Are Deliberately Wounding Children in Gaza ‘Like a Game’
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 16 – Malnutrition among Gaza children rose to 10.7% recently as aid shortages worsen due to an Israeli blockade and customs duties, UN agencies report.
- In Gaza, the UNRWA warned on July 15, 2025, that Gaza’s health system is overwhelmed, and aid is being blocked by the Government of Israel.
- Amid chronic baby formula shortages, Juliette Touma noted rising malnutrition rates and persistent shortages of essential supplies, according to UNRWA.
- On Monday, UNICEF reported that last month over 5,800 children were diagnosed with malnutrition, including over 1,000 severe cases, according to UNICEF.
- A seven-month-old infant, Salam, died from malnutrition on July 9, and her arm measured just 8.3 cm, Haaretz reported.
- Meanwhile, the Jordanian air force plans to resume airdropping aid to Gaza, and immediate nutritional, medical and sanitary assistance is essential under medical ethics and international humanitarian law.
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British doctor claims IDF are deliberately wounding children in Gaza ‘like a game’
A British surgeon in Gaza has claimed medical workers are seeing “clear patterns of injury”, suggesting IDF soldiers are deliberately shooting Gazan children in different body parts depending on the day of the week. Professor Nick Maynard told BBC Radio 4 he and his colleagues have experienced unusually high instances of gunshot victims targeted at aid distribution sites - mainly teenage boys - needing treatment for similar injuries. “On one day…
“From six o’clock in the morning until 11 o’clock, I try to breastfeed him. But he is not satisfied, he cries for hours of hunger, and I weep with him. I cry because I have nothing to give him.” Hadeel Abu Ghali, mother of a 2.3-pound premature newborn, recounts the daily anguish of trying to feed his son unsuccessfully in Gaza. Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip on March 2 has made it almost impossible since then to get basic humanitarian supp…
Surgeon warns Gaza patients dying from wounds due to starvation
Hospital patients in Gaza are dying from preventable wounds and infections because of severe malnutrition caused by Israel's blockade, a British surgeon working in the territory has said. Professor Nick Maynard, currently at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis with Medical Aid for Palestinians' Emergency Medical Team, warned that Gaza's food crisis has drastically worsened since his last visit. "The malnutrition I'm seeing here is indescribably bad. …
Surgeon shows humanitarian crisis in Gaza’s hospitals
A surgeon working in southern Gaza says babies are arriving at hospital so malnourished that “skin and bones doesn’t do it justice.” He also describes what appears to be a disturbing pattern in the gunshot wounds of children arriving from food distribution sites. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports.
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