Gaza video link: https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6375714481112
Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.
The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, particularly for children. Last month, NICEF declared that the number of children being admitted to hospitals in Gaza for acute malnutrition had risen by 50 per cent between April and May [this year]. “Of the 5,119 children admitted in May, 636 children have severe acute malnutrition, the most lethal form of malnutrition,” the statement explained. “These children need consistent, supervised treatment, safe water, and medical care to survive—all of which are increasingly scarce in Gaza today. The number of children with severe acute malnutrition has surged 146 per cent since February….”
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TEXT: The New Yorker, by Isaac Chotiner, 7 July 2025. [The rest of the article is behind a paywall…]
VISUAL: Five-month-old girl called Zainab, in hospital in Gaza, dying of malnutrition. Watch the video: https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6375714481112.
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There have unfortunately been famines like these killing babies and children in every decade of the 20th century.
Photo of a girl during the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafran_airlift .