Children face hunger in Gaza with the food blockade in Israel, and the medicine reaches two months

Warning: This story contains pictures of children with severe malnutrition.

Mona Al -Saqab looks at a picture of her son, a pre -school school, by the war in Gaza. Now five, lies in a hospital bed that was shook with the rib cage and prominent bones.

“The last time I ate meat is the first day of Ramadan (February 28),” Mona told CBC News on April 25 from Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

“After that, it was not affordable. Now, every day his condition worsens.”

Osama suffers from severe malnutrition and malfunction and causes difficulty digesting or absorbing food from food. The Ministry of Health in Gaza says that approximately 60,000 children are currently showing signs of malnutrition amid renewable shelling and the Israeli siege on the goods that enter the besieged Palestinian territories.

Mona said that it weighs about 20 lbs, or nearly 13 lbs of what doctors say should be his current weight. The total number of the siege, which has been in place since March 2, has worsened significantly.

Osama, lying on the bed is weak and weak, he goes with his mother: “I want to leave.”

For two months so far, Israel prevented the entry of medical supplies, fuel and food in the war-torn lands- The tallest such closure faced the Gaza Strip at all. Since then, relief organizations, including the Red Cross, the stimulant, seemed to have been the humanitarian response in Gaza was about to “complete collapse”.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCA) also warned of acute malnutrition among children in Gaza.

“I fear for my son’s life”

Because of the malnutrition throughout the war in Gaza, Osama requires a high protein diet and special medicines, as his mother said, he was unable to reach the siege. Before the siege, Mona said she would be able to feed her son small parts of eggs, avocado, nuts and chicken. But after March 2, she said that food prices have become exorbitant and cannot be tolerated, before food supplies were exhausted.

She said, “I am afraid of my son’s life,” and urged international groups to pressure in order to evacuate an immediate order to request medical treatment.

Hani Al -Fulit, head of the Pediatrics Department at the Hospital of Martyrs’ Residence, said that the hospital is treating a large amount of malnutrition in children between one year or less.

“The worst is, in my opinion, because the long malnutrition will lead to hunger and hunger treatment is more difficult to treat it,” Flotte told CBC News on April 26.

Mahmoud Talib Khalout says that his six -month -old daughter, Ghazal, suffers due to the lack of treatment in the region.

In addition to showing signs of malnutrition, he says that his daughter, who suffers from brain atrophy and was born with a hole in her heart known as the defect of the ventricular barrier, weighs only four pounds when she was born. Now, approximately seven pounds weigh, less than the average weight of girls about 16 lbs.

He told CBC News: “All this in addition to closing the crossings led to severe weakness in (deer),” adding that he urges the limits to open medical treatment for his daughter.

About 10,000 cases of acute malnutrition in children: United Nations

Last week, the Hamas government media office in Hamas said that famine was no longer a threat to waved on the horizon and became a reality, adding that 52 people, including 50 children, have died due to hunger and malnutrition since the imposition of the siege.

In Monday’s report, Ocha said it had identified about 10,000 cases of acute malnutrition among children identified throughout Gaza, including 1,600 cases of severe malnutrition since the beginning of 2025.

Israel claims that its decision to ban supplies was aimed at pressuring Hamas to free hostages with the ceasefire agreement stopped. Hamas said it is Ready to release All the hostages remaining in exchange for the Palestinians were imprisoned in Israel and ending the war in Gaza, but they rejected a temporary truce.

Deputy General Manager Michael Ryan of the World Health Organization’s global emergency program said that the current level of malnutrition in Gaza “causes immunity to collapse.”

“We are breaking the bodies and minds of the people of Gaza. We are starving from the children of Gaza. We are complicit,” he told reporters at the World Health Organization on Thursday.

“As a doctor, I am angry. It is an abomination,” he said.

The relief worker says that people pour waste in order to stay

Israel has previously denied that Gaza is facing a hunger crisis and says that there is still sufficient assistance to maintain the population, but the residents and relief groups say that the food that was stored during the ceasefire that started on January 19 had run out.

On Friday, Olga Cheyvco, a OCHA operator in Gaza City, said that food stocks have been mainly running out and access to water for nearly 2.3 million people in Gaza “impossible.”

She said that hungry people were pouring into a waste hills because of “anything that would help them stay.”

She said: “I see children and see the elderly people explode through these piles of garbage, not only in search of things that must be burned, but also the things that must be taken daily.”

The circumstances in the pocket worsened only in recent months, although the waves of hunger and famine in Gaza have been reported during the 19 -month -old war. Aid delivery operations were restricted Since October 7, 2023, leaving many populations exposed to hunger and malnutrition.

The militants, led by Hamas, southern Israel, attacked that day, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 251. Hamas still holds 59 hostages, 24 of whom are alive.

More than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed its attack on Gaza on March 18.

Israel has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in its attack on Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.