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David__77

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Thu Jul 24, 2025, 07:15 AM Jul 2025

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.

Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.



In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried. In one of the newly established malnutrition rooms, the mothers and children were so quiet that the loudest sound came from a pair of fans that beat weakly in the cloying heat.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday that 10 people had died of starvation in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of those killed by hunger to 111 since the start of the war. Among them was 6-week-old Yousef al-Safadi, so small in photographs from the silver table of the hospital morgue that the white sleepsuit peeled back to show his jutting ribs dwarfed his slight body.



https://archive.is/BYFjv

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/24/gaza-starvation-israel-restrictions/

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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise (Original Post) David__77 Jul 2025 OP
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