{"id":5238,"date":"2024-06-16T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2024-06-16T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T09:41:35","slug":"50000-gaza-children-require-urgent-treatment-for-malnutrition-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"50,000 Gaza children require urgent treatment for malnutrition: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UNRWA warns people in Gaza face \u2018catastrophic\u2019 levels of hunger because of Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid. As a human being, what-so-ever you are, where-ever you are, which-ever religion you believe in, what so ever race you are, what so ever your ethnicity, it is obligatory to save human lives. Rescue human lives in Gaza, especially the children.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says more than 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip require immediate medical treatment for acute malnutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Saturday, the agency noted \u201cwith continued restrictions to humanitarian access, people in Gaza continue to face desperate levels of hunger. UNRWA teams work tirelessly to reach families with aid, but the situation is catastrophic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder also described how difficult it is to not only get aid into Gaza, but also to distribute it across the war-battered coastal enclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore aid workers have been killed in this war than any war since the advent of the UN,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, UNICEF had a mission to drive a truck full of nutritional and medical supplies for 10,000 children, Elder said. Their task was to deliver the aid, which was pre-approved by Israeli authorities, from Deir el-Balah to Gaza City, a 40km (25 miles) round trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt took 13 hours and we spent eight of those around checkpoints, arguing around paperwork \u2013 \u2018was it a truck or a van\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reality is this truck was denied access. Those 10,000 children did not get that aid \u2026 Israel as the occupying power has the legal responsibility to facilitate that aid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main land crossings in Rafah has been closed since Israeli forces seized the area early last month. The move has heightened fears of famine in southern and central Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UN\u2019s World Food Programme Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau spent two days assessing the plight of Palestinians this week, saying the challenges are \u201clike nothing I have ever seen\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dThe situation in southern Gaza is quickly deteriorating. One million people in southern Gaza are trapped without clean water or sanitation in a highly congested area along the beach in the burning summer heat. We drove through rivers of sewage,\u201d said<\/a> Skau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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