The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that ten children died of starvation in the besieged Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip.
“The official records, yesterday or this morning, say that the tenth child has been officially registered in the hospital as having died of starvation,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said at a United Nations (UN) briefing in Geneva.
Lindmeier warned that the unofficial figures are “unfortunately probably higher”.
Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said extreme food shortages were “almost inevitable” under the current circumstances.
“If something doesn’t change, hunger is almost inevitable in the current conditions,” he said, adding that they are able, willing and able to do something about it, but that the conditions must be adequate.
Israel launched a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing at least 30,228 people and causing widespread destruction and shortages of supplies in the blockaded Palestinian enclave.
On January 26, following a genocide lawsuit filed by the Republic of South Africa, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must refrain from any actions related to the killing, attacks and destruction of the residents of the Gaza Strip and take all measures to prevent genocide, AA writes.
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