Mahmoud Fattouh dies from starvation as UN warns of an ‘explosion’ in child deaths due to a lack of food and water.

A two-month-old Palestinian boy has died from starvation in northern Gaza, according to media reports, days after the United Nations warned of an “explosion” in child deaths due to Israel’s war on the besieged enclave.

The Shehab news agency said Mahmoud Fattouh died at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Friday.Footage, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the emaciated infant gasping for breath in a hospital bed. One of the paramedics who rushed the boy to the hospital says Mahmoud died from acute malnutrition.

“We rushed him to hospital and he was found to be suffering acute malnutrition. Medical staff rushed him into the ICU. The baby has not been fed any milk for days, as baby milk is totally absent in Gaza.”

Israel, which cut off all supplies of food, water and fuel into Gaza at the start of the war, opened one entry point for humanitarian aid in December. But aid agencies say stringent checks by Israeli forces and protests by far-right demonstrators at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, known by Israelis as Kerem Shalom, have hampered the entry of food trucks.

“The Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child deaths, which would compound the already unbearable level of child deaths in Gaza,” said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s deputy executive director for humanitarian action, in a statement last week.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      When the Israelis have exterminated the Palestinian people and claimed their land for their own.

      It’s a genocide and has been the whole time. All facist theories and philosophy are antithetical to peace in this planet and Zionism finds it’s roots in the period of German facism that led to world war two. The current Zionist parties made common cause with the Nazis and shared much of the same ideology.

      Those who want a peaceful, pluralistic, democratic future are in a war for survival right now and we’re losing. We’re hamstrun by white liberalism obsession with bipartisanship, pretending that their halfway answers will ever bring white nationalists to their cause. It’s absurd but they refuse to give up on it.