UN Chief Warns Development Goals Will Fail if Wars Continue to Rage,
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 21 – UN and Gaza health officials report over 17,000 children suffer severe malnutrition amid Israel's blockade restricting aid and food entry since October 2023, worsening starvation and deaths.
- Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on human rights, accused Israel of deliberately starving millions and killing children in Gaza, stating that its intention is 'to erase Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.'
- UNICEF spokesperson Salim Aweys reported that Israel is refusing many requests for aid entry, contributing to the dire situation in the Gaza Strip.
- The World Food Programme's Deputy Executive Director reported families are trying to minimize children's energy use due to severe food shortages affecting their nourishment.
- OCHA estimates that about 500,000 people in Gaza are in starvation, with a 100% projection of high levels of acute food insecurity affecting 2.1 million people this summer and fall.
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UN chief warns development goals will fail if wars continue to rage,
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned Israel’s killing of civilians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza over the weekend, calling it “an atrocious and inhumane act,” and demanded an immediate ceasefire along with the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas and unimpeded aid access to the starving enclave. “These were people seeking UN
The UN warns about the malnutrition of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Children are the first victims of the lack of food in the enclave. Humanitarian aid is ready, but its distribution remains largely insufficient. - Gaza: the UN warns about the seriousness of cases of malnutrition, especially among children (International).
UN’s Albanese: Israel is deliberately killing children and starving millions in Gaza Strip
New York, SANA-The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, accused Israel of killing children and starving millions, stressing that Israel's intention "is to erase Palestinians from the Gaza Strip." Commenting on the starvation death o
Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov't is starving People in Gaza
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food in the Strip, and Israeli authorities are actively preventing the massive food stockpiles on the border from entering. The Israelis let a little bit of food and fuel in as a face-saving measure, but it is a drop in the bucket, and they distribute it in a way that is dangerous for the population. …
Malnutrition is reaching alarming levels in the Gaza Strip, at war, particularly affecting children, the UN warns.
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