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Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death as a result of the inhuman siege imposed by Israel with direct help from the United States.
Ten-years old Yazan al-Kafarna, who died in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on March 4 from acute hunger and malnutrition, has became the sad face of the crisis
Yazan and his family were displaced from the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Strip. He had cerebral palsy and required a particular diet, such as blended fruit and milk, items now unavailable in the besieged enclave.
Over the weekend, photos showing the Palestinian child lying on a hospital bed with sunken cheeks spread all over social networks.
In one video, Kafarna’s father shows a photo of him before the war looking healthy. The photo was taken just a few weeks earlier.
“Before the war he was healthy, he had access to all the food and medical care he needed. When the war started, everything was cut off… this happened to him from the lack of nutrition and him not having important foods,” he said.
Doctors confirmed that Yazan’s death was caused by malnutrition. His tragic case was cited at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour.
Yazan’s case is only one of many. Just a day before his death, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said that 15 children had died of malnutrition or dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, the part of the enclave where the lack of food is most extreme.
Doctors at the hospital also “fear for the lives of six children suffering from malnutrition and diarrhea in intensive care as a result of the cessation of the electric generator and oxygen and the weakness of medical capabilities,” Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the ministry’s spokesman in Gaza, said in a statement.
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called for urgent action, requesting “multiple reliable entry points” to allow them to bring aid.
“Humanitarian aid agencies like UNICEF must be enabled to reverse the humanitarian crisis, prevent a famine, and save children’s lives,” UNICEF’s Adele Khodr said in a statement on March 4.
UNICEF said it was also aware of at least 10 children dying due to dehydration and malnutrition in recent days at Kamal Adwan Hospital
The World Health Organization (WHO) also warned that a growing number of children in Gaza are dying of starvation and dehydration.
A WHO team found “severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed,” during a recent visit to the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals in northern Gaza, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X on March 4.
“Kamal Adwan Hospital is the only paediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza, and is overwhelmed with patients… The lack of electricity poses a serious threat to patient care, especially in critical areas like the intensive care unit and the neonatal unit,” he added.
The Israeli war on Gaza began on October 7, following a surprise attack led by Hamas that claimed the lives of some 1,200 Israeli service members and civilians and saw the capture of some 200 others.
By March 6, Israel had killed 30,631 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Strip’s health ministry. More than 72,043 others have been wounded. The ministry noted in its statement that some victims remain under the rubble amid heavy bombardment and a lack of civil defense and ambulance crews.
Despite the mounting death toll and the growing humanitarian crisis, the U.S. continues to show unwavering support for the Israeli war and siege on Gaza.
Last January, Washington suspended support to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, over Israel’s allegations linking the organization -which provides aid to more than 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza- to Hamas.
The Biden administration has also refused time after time to mount sufficient pressure on Israel to allow meaningful aid into Gaza.
Faced with much criticism, the U.S. began dropping emergency aid to Gaza earlier this month. While the step is meant to whitewash Washington, it actually showed its unwillingness to pressure Israel in any serious way over the aid issue.
In its latest situation report, dated March 1, the UNRWA said that an average of about 97 trucks a day had been entering Gaza in February, down from about 150 in January and well short of the 500-a-day target.
Overall, UN agencies and humanitarian groups blame the humanitarian crisis on Israel’s actions, including the closure of land crossings into northern Gaza, ongoing military operations and a complex system of Israeli checks of items bound for Gaza at the Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings.
While indirect talks between Israel and Hamas made some progress in recent days, an agreement could still be far. With the U.S. unwilling to pressure Israel over the delivery of aid to Gaza, the crisis in the Strip will only grow worse. Children, who roughly make up more than half of the Palestinian population in the enclave, will face the worst of the crisis.
people always seem to think that ‘my people’ from jesus meant jews, but maybe he meant former jews’ families who converted to christianity, and are now palestinians. why do they ban dna tests in israel? because they show how similar israeli and palestinian dna is. for the record, the nazis starved the jews once they were losing the war and out of resources, not out of spite and desire to steal land. i would be so ashamed of myself if my money went to this.
yeah, isn’t it strange that you need a court order to obtain a dna test in the land of the chosen one’s? the reason is obvious but the isreali apartheid regime thinks we’re all daft.
yup, to be the choosen ones, you have to choose to serve god, not the synagog of satan.
so the jews have decided a final solution of the palestinians… jews are the worst people on earth, brainwashed by their hateful religion, raised to think they are both victims and a superior race. they are the fathers of the lies.
sorry, islam is even more hatefull !
no, telmudic zionist jews are the most disgusting evil psychopaths that rival german nazis. karma will get you.
tète de chienne la ferme fdp
no alexander gilkes. you are not even a human.
revolting stuff…..the jews are taken over by satan. they are not chosen, they are imposters, fake weasels that do not deserve to live in peace for what they are doing
they aren’t jew, they are zionist if anything. “chosen people” means nothing really… all it meant was god sent prophets to them… even as far as back then jews were a massive problem…jesus is rejected in judaism.
“israel” was not give to jews by god, the british created “israel” for zionists in the europe who were a massive problem. just look jewish terrorism…
they killed their own prophets and repeatedly turned to sacrificing others’ children and their own children to demonic idols… exactly what is happening in israel now. and the reason god kicked them out of jerusalem twice.
from my understanding it also got to do with their behaviours as well… like how many times they got expelled from europe? one should question that…
how many of them got killed in ww2? there are hard reasons as to why.
they aren’t chosen by anybody other than themselves. a bunch of psycho narcissists with personality disorders that gets passed down genetically.
yeah why do you think i put quotation marks for?
also, like i said before they reject jesus…
hamas must stop fighting and start working. then they will get food. there ist no other way !
get out of their country first you hook nose
you are gross in every way. spoiled filth who has already been given far more than you deserve.
oh you change your name… also again rtded one there is one god that all three main religion worship lmfao. you can cope all you want satanic one but there is only one god, bad-mouthing the god get you only to one place.
sorry, haven’t heard anything new from your god for a long time / about 1500 years. he probably has something better to do.
sorry, i also decide where i am and want to go!
muslims should start thinking!
someone please translate what he said…
there is one god… what do you mean by “your god”? (if you are following one the 3 main religion).
ffs are you really a cow shit eater? please lie… like say you are anything but a fuking cow shit eater.
anyone who could defend the actions of the jews in israel after seeing these proofs of their psychopath natures is excrement.
you are excrement personified.
alexander is another to make him a company. only you, pig can make these heartless statements, and no one else, here in sf.
apart from the well seen and well known zionist war and humanetarian crimes, but what about the aegyptian traitors?
they could open the southern gaza border and send in hundrets of trucks full of food and medicine daily.
why dont the do that?
cause moslems are more mad than you can imagin
“because muslims are more mad than you can imagine.”
it seems like he is becoming a full rtd.
the fuck got his own kid, named theodor. he’s a godless, depresive shizoactive dissorder.
i thought everyone knew sisi is a jew. certainly a hasbarabot as committed to your self-chozen psychosis as you are, would know that fact.
now you die!
the us and israel that funded and created isil? that is crazy, i couldn’t see that coming…
the us invaded how many countries so far? surely, they had a great reason for those wars… oh wait nvm.
and all with us backup..
amerikans have no soul–they are morally diseased creatures
that poor child and all suffering palestinian children like him that starved to death! israel and murica are monsters.
all of us are sorry, what happened to that girl. to change it, we have to fight in war. there’s no other way.
the israeli regime is the scum, ever under the nazis, of this universe
all the un posturing over the years. all their departments around the world. all the money they spend, and yet we still have an apartheid regime practicing genocide on its neighbour so they may take their land. the un is worse than a toothless relic. it’s a warmongering collaborator that stands by and watches innocent people being murdered and robbed.
satanjahu has to pay- anydays – n full
the 3 most evil governments on earth are: israel, usa and the uk and many of their citizens are aware of it but will not say a word. here’s the kicker…they are the ones calling others terrorists.
ukraine and france (sex with ‘consenting’, ie groomed or traumatized and scared, children is legal there) are really making a go at it.
discusting us and zionist isreali genocidal scum.