These young deaths are “the last in the war against children and childhood in Gaza,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Refugee Agency Unrwa, on a Tweet on Wednesday.
The toll also includes about 40.00 reported children killed or injured due to bombing and air attacks, at least 17,000 children not accompanied and separated, and a million deeply traumatized young people who do not receive education.
“Children are children,” he said.
“No one must remain silent when children die, or are brutally deprived of a future, where these children areEven in Gaza.
A gloomy meeting
Thousands of sick children in Gaza need urgent medical evacuation, according to the UN OCHA Help Coordination Office.
Olga Cherevko, spokesman for the agency, recalled at the time he recognized a girl who required treatment in a Gaza hospital after a one -year interval, once again suffering malnutrition.
“I remembered his long eyelashes,” said the veteran humanitarian to UN newsDescribing Janah, seven, with whom he met at the Gaza City patients hospital on Tuesday.
“The first time I met her was at the BMI field hospital in southern Gaza in April 2024. At that time, she was very malnourished and was receiving treatment. And he gradually became better and was discharged and went home.”
Janah, seven, is treated in the patient friendly with the patient hospital in the city of Gaza.
Evacuation saves lives
However, Janah was now back to the hospital “because malnutrition worsened and The condition that she is not adequately diagnosed either and cannot be adequately diagnosed. ”
The girl is on a list of people to be medically evacuated to receive treatment outside Gaza. The most recent evacuations took place last week when the World Health Organization (WHO) supported the transfer of 15 children with critical diseases to Jordan, but more than 14,800 people are still waiting.
Mrs. Cherevko emphasized the importance of ensuring that evacuations continue to save as many lives as possible.
More help is needed
He also pointed out that for children and adults with pre -existing conditions, his situation worsens with malnutrition.
“It would not be this way if they had adequate nutrition, because these conditions existed before the hunger crisis and were not getting sick as much as they are now,” he said.
“That is why it is imperative to ensure that we have adequate conditions in the field so that the appropriate supplies volumes enter, from food to medicine to nutrition and refuge,” he continued.
“And these lines of life have to be really enabled so that we can deliver this help to people in need.”
Dying of hunger
Their appeal occurs when Gaza’s health authorities reported on Wednesday that eight people, including three children, died due to malnutrition and hunger in the last 24 hours.
“Such reports have become a daily occurrence, reflecting the humanitarian crisis of deepening and the urgent need for sustained assistance,” said Ocha in his last update.
Who also did a review of Review at the Rantissi Children Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday, focusing on the management of hospitalized patients with malnutrition.
Rantissi is one of the five nutrition stabilization centers in the enclave and the course aimed to help staff members up to date with the new information.
Ocha said that “the recent increase in cases of malnutrition among children has required the establishment and expansion of these centers.”
Since January, more than 340 children have been admitted for malnutrition treatment. As of August 5, 49 infantile deaths validated for malnutrition have been reported, with 39 among children under five years.
Trauma and mental health problems
In other developments, the data collected by the UN and the partners of more than 900 homes in Gaza in July indicated a continuous trauma that leads to mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
The care staff is also traumatized, and the partners working in the protection sector have begun to provide mental health and psychosocial support for their staff.
Meanwhile, UN efforts to bring help to the Gaza Strip continue.
The teams collected food and fuel from the border crossings of Kerem Shalom and Zikim on Tuesday and other missions are still ongoing.
The goods enter but the cash is low
The UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said that the entry of goods has improved the market situation in terms of prices and availability.
For example, a sugar bag now averages 40 Shekels, approximately $ 12, per bag, after reaching a maximum point in approximately 600 Shekels, equivalent to approximately $ 175.
“However, the serious shortage of cash is preventing families from buying food, being able to buy water and buy medicine,” he told reporters in New York.
Humanitarians have repeatedly emphasized that the amount of aid and goods that can be taken to Gaza does not meet the minimum requirements of the population.
They continue to ask for a fire and so that the aid flows are extended.
