Gaza: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) stated that one out of every five children in Gaza City is malnourished, with cases rising daily.
Most of the youngsters that our teams are seeing are malnourished, weak, and on the verge of death if they do not receive immediate medical care. More than 100 individuals, the majority of them youngsters, have died of starvation, according to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
He stated that parents are too hungry to care for their children, and that those who visit UNRWA institutions lack the energy, food, or resources to follow medical instructions.
This escalating disaster is affecting everyone, including people who are attempting to save lives in the war-torn area.
UNRWA frontline health staff are living on one little meal each day, which is often only lentils. They are increasingly passing out due to starvation while on the job. When caretakers do not have adequate food, the whole humanitarian structure collapses, he said.
Lazzarini requested that humanitarian organizations offer Gaza unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian aid.
UNRWA has the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical materials in Jordan and Egypt, according to him.
