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Six aid seekers killed since dawn: Medical sources
Israeli forces have killed at least six Palestinian aid seekers across Gaza, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera. Since the early hours of the morning, Israeli attacks have killed at least 11 people.
Displaced people wait to fill containers with drinking water amid the destruction in the Khan Younis camp on August 24
Nasser Hospital unable to cope with rising cases of malnourished children
The head of the children’s department at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis says the health crisis in southern Gaza has reached “a catastrophic level”, warning that the facility can no longer cope with the number of malnourished children seeking treatment.
In a post on the hospital’s Facebook page, Dr Ahmed al-Farra said the facility would need “ten hospitals the size of the Nasser Complex” to handle the increasing number of cases of children suffering from malnutrition.
There are currently 25 children hospitalised in critical condition, including those lying on the floor due to a lack of beds, he said.
One in four children in Gaza is already suffering from malnutrition, and between 60,000 and 75,000 children in southern Gaza alone are at risk, he continued, calling the figures “horrifying and unprecedented”.
“The malnutrition clinic in Nasser, which can only operate two days a week, receives more than 120 cases in a few hours, ten times the previous rates,” he said.
Some children, al-Farra added, arrive at the hospital after losing their lives outside its gates “due to lack of milk and treatment”.
Healthcare staff fainting from hunger in Gaza: Medical Aid for Palestinians
The famine declared in Gaza on Friday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) only confirms what aid workers have been witnessing for months, Liz Allcock of Medical Aid for Palestinians says.
The IPC, an independent body of experts, said its declaration was based on “extremely rigorous” evidence with 514,000 people, a quarter of Gaza’s population, already in famine conditions. The figure is expected to rise further.
“If anything, it’s quite late,” Allcock said.
“All of us were expecting this declaration … a long time ago because of what we see on the ground, but because of the thoroughness of the evidence base that’s required to make this decision, it has taken a while.”
She said famine conditions are visible daily across Gaza. “It’s not only children, the images that you see with the swollen bellies and the skin-and-bone arms,” she said.
“It’s also elderly people who are unable to get access to any kind of food. It’s also healthcare staff, aid workers who are fainting on the job because they don’t have enough food or sustenance to keep them going.”
