These young deaths are “the last of the war against children and childhood in Gaza”, Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWAsaid in A tweet Wednesday.
The toll also includes some 40,000 boys and girls reported killed or injured due to bombing and air strike, at least 17,000 unaccompanied and separate children, and a million deeply traumatized young people who do not receive education.
“Children are children,” he said.
“” No one should be silent in the death of children, or is brutally deprived of a future, wherever these children areincluding in Gaza. »»
A dark meeting
Thousands of sick children in Gaza need urgent medical evacuation, according to the United Nations Coordination Office Ochha.
Olga Cherevko, agency spokesperson, recalled the moment when she recognized a young girl requiring treatment in a Gaza hospital after an interval of one year, suffering once more malnutrition.
“I remembered his long eyelashes,” said the veteran humanitarian UN NewsDescribing Janah, seven, whom she met at the hospital adapted to the patients of Gaza City on Tuesday.
“The first time I met her was at IMC Field hospital in southern Gaza in April 2024. At the time, she was seriously malnocked and had treatment. And she gradually became better and was finally released and returned home. »»
Janah, seven, is treated at the hospital adapted to the patients of Gaza City.
Evacuation saves lives
However, Janah was now back to the hospital “because malnutrition has worsened and The condition that it has also is not properly diagnosed and cannot be properly diagnosed. »»
The girl is on a list of people to evacuate medically for treatment outside Gaza. The most recent evacuations took place last week when the World Health Organization (WHO)) supported The transfer of 15 seriously sick children in Jordan, but more than 14,800 people are still waiting.
Ms. Cherevko stressed the importance of ensuring that evacuations continue to save as many lives as possible.
More help required
She also pointed out that for children and adults suffering from pre -existing conditions, their situation gets worse with malnutrition.
“It would not be so if they had good nutrition, because these conditions existed before the famine crisis and they do not become as sick as they are now,” she said.
“This is why it is imperative to make sure that we have appropriate conditions on the ground for adequate volumes of supplies to enter-everything, from food to medicine via nutrition in a shelter,” she continued.
“And these lines of life must be really activated so that we can provide this help to people in need.”
Die of hunger
His call comes as the Gaza health authorities reported on Wednesday that eight people, three of whom have died due to malnutrition and famine in the past 24 hours.
“Such reports have become a daily event, reflecting the deepening of the humanitarian crisis and the urgent need for sustained assistance”, Ocha said in its last update.
Who also gave recycling training at the Rantissi children’s hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday, focusing on the management of hospitalized malnutrition patients.
Rantissi is one of the five nutritional stabilization centers of the enclave and the course was aimed at helping staff members stay up to date with new information.
The OCHA noted that “the recent increase in cases of malnutrition in children required the creation and scale of these centers”.
Since January, more than 340 children have been admitted for treatment of malnutrition. As of August 5, 49 deaths by malnutrition validated by malnutrition were reported, with 39 children under the age of five.
Trauma and mental health problems
In other developments, the data collected by the UN and partners of more than 900 Gaza households in July indicated continuous trauma resulting in mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
The care staff is also traumatized and partners working in the protection sector have started to provide mental health and psychosocial support to their staff.
Meanwhile, the UN efforts to help the Gaza strip continue.
The teams collected food and fuel from Kerem Shalom and Zikim border crossings on Tuesday and other missions are still in progress.
The goods are entering but money is low
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said The entry of goods has improved the market situation in terms of price and availability.
For example, a bag of sugar on average 40 shekels, around $ 12, per bag, after having culminated at around 600 shekels, equivalent to around $ 175.
“However, serious shortages in cash prevent families from being able to buy food, to be able to buy water and to be able to buy medication,” he told journalists in New York.
Humanitarians have repeatedly stressed that the quantity of aid and goods that can be brought to Gaza does not meet the minimum requirements of the population.
They continue to request a ceasefire and so that the help flows are on the scale.
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