Four-month-old dies from malnutrition in Gaza: Report
Wafa is reporting that a four-month-old infant, Yousef al-Najjar, has died as a result of malnutrition. Local media reports say the infant weighed just 1.5kg (3.3 pounds) when he died, less than one-fourth of the average weight for his age.
The death comes amid a 64-day aid blockade of Gaza, which the UN has warned is putting thousands of children and babies at heightened risk of starvation.
A morgue worker at al-Shifa Hospital places the body of a child among those of other victims killed in at least two Israeli army strikes
Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza for ‘gender reveal’ party
A May 3 video filmed by Israeli troops shows the demolition of a building in the Gaza Strip for a “gender reveal” party.
The soldiers had previously rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.
Most in Gaza ‘starving’; children ‘cannot find a piece of bread’
We have spoken to Amjad Shawa, the Gaza-based director of the Palestinian NGOs Network, about the dire humanitarian conditions across the Strip due to Israel’s war and total blockade.
He said the majority of Palestinians in the territory “are starving”, but he added that he was particularly worried about vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly and patients “who cannot find a piece of bread now”.
“A bag of flour, 25 kilos [55lb], it’s $350 in the black market now,” Shawa told Al Jazeera.
“We are losing lives. My concern is that in a few days we’ll have hundreds or thousands of children – they will lose their lives because of malnutrition and because of the thirst situation,” he said.
“So there is a deficit in water, deficit in medication and medicine, and Gaza is [running] out of food.”
Compounding the situation, Shawa added, was Gaza’s worsening pollution.
“We have more than 600,000 tonnes of solid waste all over the neighbourhoods and sites in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “So such suffocation, such diseases will lead to what?”
