Humanitarian organizations sound the bell for mass famine in Gaza – 21 children dead from malnutrition in 72 hours

More than a hundred humanitarian aid organizations are currently sounding the alarm with a joint statement, warning that a “mass starvation” is spreading in the Gaza Strip as the war rages. Israel has been faced with increasing international pressure on the ever -dramatic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian pockets under the siege, which has been transformed into ruins after 22 months of war. It only relaxed in late May the absolute exclusion it imposed on Gaza since early March, which caused huge shortages of food, medicines and other essentials. “As it spreads to the Gaza Strip of Mass Lummes, our colleagues and the people we help are becoming increasingly weaker,” NGOs said in a joint statement, including doctors without borders, branches of the doctors of the world, Caritas and Caritas. They call to declare a ceasefire immediately, to open all the passages and to allow free […]
Source: News Beast

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