Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) said that only 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet the needs of the population.
Most of those aid trucks were looted before their contents could be distributed, GMO added, accusing the Israeli occupation regime of engineering security chaos and starvation in Gaza.
“Famine is ravaging Gaza’s children amid shameful international silence,” GMO said in a statement on Sunday, calling for the “immediate opening of the crossings and the entry of sufficient quantities of aid and baby formula.”
On Sunday, Gaza’s health ministry said that six adult people died of malnutrition and starvation in the past 24 hours.
These new fatalities have brought the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 175, including 93 children, according to the health ministry.
On Saturday, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was among seven Palestinians who died from malnutrition within 24 hours in Gaza.
For its part, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the Gaza Strip is facing a grave risk of famine, with one in three people going days without food.
UNICEF also urged the international community to act swiftly as humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate due to Israel’s genocidal war.
“Today, more than 320,000 young children are at risk of acute malnutrition,” Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s deputy executive director for humanitarian action and supply operations, said in a statement on Friday following a recent trip to 1948 occupied Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank.
Chaiban said the malnutrition indicator in Gaza has “exceeded the famine threshold.”
“Today, I want to keep the focus on Gaza, because it’s in Gaza where the suffering is most acute and where children are dying at an unprecedented rate,” the UNICEF official said.
“We are at a crossroads, and the choices made now will determine whether tens of thousands of children live or die,” he added.
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