Children die of hunger

The martyrdom of at least 13 children in Gaza City and northern provinces of the Strip due to malnutrition and starvation is a declaration of failure for the international community and the United Nations, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas stated on Friday.

The tragic death of the children "is a stain on humanity and a serious precedent in our modern era," the movement said.

Hamas reiterated its call to the UN and international relief organizations to urgently intervene to save children and civilians, especially in Gaza City and the Strip's northern regions, calling on these institutions not to "succumb to the dictates of the criminal Zionist occupation, which is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people."

The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, confirmed earlier that two children died at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City due to dehydration and malnutrition.

He emphasized that international organizations are unable to provide any protection to the health system in the besieged and destroyed Strip, adding that 30 out of 35 hospitals in Gaza are now out of service as the Israeli war continues.

Al-Qudra said that the Israeli occupation is committing genocide in northern Gaza by targeting and starving 700,000 people, warning that thousands of children, pregnant women, sick people, and elderly citizens in northern Gaza are at risk of death due to dehydration and malnutrition.