US EditionMalnutrition among children in Gaza spikes as Israel's blockade enters third month
- Malnutrition among children in Gaza is sharply increasing as Israel's blockade enters its third month, severely limiting supplies in the territory.
- The blockade, imposed by Israel on March 2 to pressure Hamas over hostages, followed the end of a two-month ceasefire and resumed military operations on March 18.
- Hospitals prioritize critical emergencies and treat only the worst cases, while nearly half of nutrition centers shut due to displacement and bombardment, worsening child malnutrition.
- In March, 3,600 children were treated for acute malnutrition, an 80% rise over February, and experts warn that “wasting,” the most dangerous malnutrition form, will increase if aid is blocked.
- The growing humanitarian crisis suggests worsening child health outcomes in Gaza unless food and medical supplies enter, as aid dependency is over 80% and hospitals are near collapse.
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Tom Moran: It’s not just self-defense in Gaza. It’s ethnic cleansing.
Two months after Israel began blocking shipments of food, water and medicine to the Gaza Strip, Palestinian children are beginning to starve. You can watch videos of them writhing on hospital beds, their skeletal frames showing through stretched skin, their eye wide with pain and horror, their mothers looking on helplessly.
85 House Democrats say Israel must end ‘morally wrong’ Gaza aid cutoff
A group of 85 House Democrats have signed onto a draft letter to Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter blasting as both a moral and strategic failure Israel’s blockage of humanitarian aid moving into Gaza in recent months, based on the draft reviewed by Jewish Insider. “We are deeply alarmed and dismayed by this blockade, which started on March 2 and has contributed to some of the worst humanitarian conditions in Gaza since October 2023,…
Strikes across Gaza kill 92 as Israel prepares to ramp up its offensive
Deir al-Balah: Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 92 people, including women, children and two journalists, officials said Wednesday, as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign in the strip, with the devastating war now entering its 20th month. Two Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday targeted an area in central Gaza, killing at least 33 people and wounding 86, including several children, though the actual death toll is likely higher, accord…
Israel Bombs School, Tents Housing Displaced Palestinians in Gaza; U.N. Condemns Weaponization of Aid
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed another 31 people, including 13 Palestinians who died when Israel bombed a school east of Gaza City. A separate attack on a tent encampment for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah killed three people, including a child. Amid the unrelenting attacks, Hamas said it would no longer engage in ceasefire talks due to the catastrophic famine set off by Israel’s total siege of Gaza, now in its ninth week. A spokes…
The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza
Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this is done to force the culprit to confess, or to pressure you and your classmates to point the finger. It’s a clever method of drafting students to help police the classroom. Such tactics of collective p…
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