Tag: Malnutrition

Trapped and Starving, 2 Families in Gaza Try to Keep Their Children Alive

Born in wartime, the baby had not eaten in more than a day, his father said — no formula, no nothing. His parents had already spent the last of their money on food, sold his mother’s gold jewelry to buy milk and begged water from other evacuees to mix the powdered formula. Now even that […]

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What Happens When There Is No Food: Experts Say Severe Malnutrition Could Set in Swiftly in Gaza

The director of the United States Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said this week that a famine is underway in northern Gaza, which has been devastated by six months of Israeli military operations and is the part of the territory most cut off from humanitarian assistance. Ms. Power referred to the work of the […]

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