Image: Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza,
Mothers fill bottles with water and whatever food they can find as Israel’s blockade continues to fuel the starvation crisis.
30 July 2025
Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip are desperately trying to feed their newborns as Israel’s punishing blockade on the besieged enclave has led to dire shortages of infant formula, with some resorting to filling bottles with water and whatever food they can find.
Dr Kahlil Daqran told Al Jazeera on Thursday that as supplies of formula run out, many mothers are often too malnourished to breastfeed their infants.
“In the Gaza Strip, we have thousands of children being starved because there is no milk for children under the age of two,” Daqran said. “These children, their mothers also have malnutrition because there is no food, so the mothers cannot produce milk. Now, our children are being fed either water or ground hard legumes, and this is harmful for the children.”
SOURCE: AlJazeera News, 31 July 2025. PHOTO by Abdallah Fs Alattar/Anadolu.