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Over 6,000 Palestinian children being treated for malnutrition in Gaza
More than 6,000 Palestinian children are being treated for malnutrition resulting from Israel’s blockade of Gaza, according to Global Nutrition Cluster partners, which includes the United Nations health and food agencies.
The deaths due to starvation in Gaza have risen to at least 175 people, including 93 children.
Despite calls from the UN, aid agencies and world leaders to allow more aid trucks into the enclave to alleviate the crisis, the Israeli government has refused.
‘I thought this was my end’: 15-year-old shot in the eye while seeking food in Gaza
Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar has been partially blinded after being shot in the eye by Israeli forces while trying to collect food near a site run by the GHF, the aid organisation backed by the US and Israel.
Doctors said it is unlikely he will regain vision in his left eye.
“I went there around 2am. It was my first time going to the distribution point,” he told Al Jazeera. “I went because my siblings and I had no food. We couldn’t find anything to eat.”
“We were running when they began shooting at us. I was with three others. Three of them were hit. As soon as we started running, they opened fire.”
Abdul Rahman said a bullet struck him as he tried to flee: “Then I felt something like electricity shoot through my body. … I collapsed to the ground. … I thought this was the end. My death is near.”
Despite his injury, he said Israeli soldiers “kept shooting” even as people yelled at him to go back. “They were still firing. I got scared and started reciting prayers.”
