UN official calls for flooding Gaza with aid it needs
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The spokesperson for the UN humanitarian agency stated that now is the time to flood Gaza with aid as children have been starving to death.
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Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid on a beachfront in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)
The United Nations urged the international community today to "flood" Gaza with aid as the number of children dying because of starvation is continuously increasing.
The spokesperson for the UNOCHA, Jens Laerke informed reporters in Geneva that "With children starting ... to die from starvation, that should be an alarm like no other."
"If not now, when is the time to pull the stops, break the glass, and flood Gaza with the aid that it needs?" Laerke exclaimed.
"That is what we need to see happen," he urged.
Last weekend, the UN's World Health Organization delivered aid to two hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time since October and revealed that the situation there is very disturbing and many children are starving.
Ahmed Dahir, head of the mission, informed reports in Geneva that doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only pediatrics hospital in northern Gaza, told them that "at least 10 children had died due to starvation."
'Israel' starves another child to death, children starved now at 16
Medical sources announced on March 4 the martyrdom of a child in Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah due to malnutrition and the absence of adequate treatment, in the war of starvation 'Israel' has imposed on Gaza.
This raises the number of children martyred due to malnutrition and starvation to 16.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, announced on Sunday that 15 Palestinian children have died due to malnutrition and dehydration in Kamal Adwan Hospital north of Gaza.
He further expressed concern over the lives and well-being of another six children in the Intensive Care Unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital who are also suffering from malnutrition and dehydration amid the shutdown of the electric generator and oxygen.
