Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children

Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surges (copy)

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.

Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children

Its food stocks have been running out since Israel cut off all supplies to the territory in March 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Video. ‘From bad to worse’: Gaza hospital faces surge in child hunger deaths

Video. The Patient’s Friends Hospital in northern Gaza is overwhelmed by an unprecedented wave of severely malnourished children, many arriving too weak to cry or move.

Children dying of hunger as Israel keeps tight hold on food supply in Gaza

After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.

Inside Gaza's Nasser Hospital - where there's virtually no food for malnourished children

Huda, 12, is a patient at Nasser Hospital. But with almost no food left, medics are struggling to treat the children and toddlers.

Gaza Running Out of Specialised Food to Save Malnourished Children

Supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.