Geneva – Saba:
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, warned Sunday evening that “further military escalation in Gaza could put more children at risk due to malnutrition and lack of access to healthcare.”
In a post on the X platform (formerly Twitter), monitored by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), he expressed deep concern over Israel’s plan to expand military operations in Gaza, given the already deteriorating humanitarian and health situation across the Strip.
He reiterated the call for “immediate, unrestricted, and widespread access to food and health aid, the release of prisoners, and a durable ceasefire.”
Earlier on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced five new deaths from starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of victims to 217, including 100 children.
Palestinians in Gaza have faced an unprecedented wave of hunger since Israel closed the Strip’s crossings in early March and imposed strict restrictions on the entry of food aid, relief supplies, fuel, and medicine.
Currently, cases of malnutrition and starvation continue to flood Gaza’s hospitals, where 900,000 children suffer from hunger, 70,000 of whom have entered a state of malnutrition.
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