US EditionAid groups: Thousands of children in Gaza are malnourished under Israel's blockade
- The war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, following a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people and abducted 251 hostages.
- Since March 2, 2024, Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza, barring all food and supplies to pressure Hamas to release hostages, disarm, and leave the territory.
- The blockade, combined with resumed Israeli bombardment since March 18, has displaced about 90% of Gaza's population and left hundreds of thousands in tent camps or bombed-out buildings with scarce resources.
- Aid groups report a rapid deterioration in Gaza’s nutrition situation, with over 3,600 children newly admitted for acute malnutrition in March and 95% of humanitarian groups reducing or halting operations due to bombardment dangers.
- This crisis reflects a deliberate political choice, as aid organizations warn the blockade and bombardments constitute an assault on Gaza's survival, severely limiting aid and food for more than two million people.
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A review of Joe Sacco’s books Palestine, 296 pages, Jonathan Cape (January 2003); Footnotes in Gaza, 432 pages, Metropolitan Books (October 2010); and War on Gaza, 32 pages, Fantagraphics (December 2024). In April 2024, prominent French Jewish cartoonist Jean Sfar published a graphic novel entitled Nous Vivrons (“We Shall Live”), which dealt with Hamas’s barbarous 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the worldwide wave of antisemitism it generate…
Over 2 million people trapped inside Gaza, says UN
More than two million people remain trapped inside the Gaza Strip, according to UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, as reported by Anadolu Agency. Dujarric told Anadolu reporters that ongoing hostilities and severely limited aid have pushed stress levels to alarming highs, especially among children with mental health needs rising rapidly. Citing the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), he warned that humanitarian supplie…
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