ORA child died from “malnutrition, thirst and lack of medicine” at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah (central Gaza) according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa and, with it, they rise to 40 victims of hunger since the war began, setting off alarm bells once again about the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
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Famine also ravages the north of the Strip, according to hospital director Kamal Adwan: “Northern Gaza is facing a humanitarian disaster with the specter of famine looming,” he shared in a statement.
“We don’t have food in Yabalia, we have some types of cans (of food),” the acting director of the Al Awda hospital in that city, also in the north, told EFE about their situation in the center.
More than 96% of women and children aged 6 to 23 months do not meet their nutritional needs in the absence of minimum dietary diversity
Throughout the Strip, 82,000 children presented symptoms of malnutrition, and 35% became seriously ill.according to the Gazan government, controlled by Hamas.
“More than 96% of women and children aged 6 to 23 months do not meet their nutritional needs in the absence of minimal dietary diversity,” acknowledged the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). English), in its latest report on the situation in Gaza.
Besides, Of the 40 dead in the enclave due to hunger, 33 are children, the Gazan authorities recognized.
On June 7th, The United Nations included Israel on the “black list” of countries that violate children’s rights, And in the conflict, 15,694 of the 37,266 deaths would be minors, according to the Strip’s Ministry of Health.
On Thursday night, the Commissioner General of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, also denounced the situation of children in the enclave with a text on social networks: “Too many have died, too many were injured and “too many will be scarred for life.”
“Without a ceasefire they will become a lost generation, easy to fall prey to exploitation” phrase to ask Palestinians and Israelis for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Offensive in Rafah continues
Meanwhile, in Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip, the Army will advance “until all its objectives are achieved,” said Yaron Finkelman, commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli Army, this Friday, who did not specify how far, despite the fact that miles of Palestinians remain displaced on the beaches of Al Mawasi (west of the city) which Israel designated as a “safe zone.”
These objectives, according to the usual rhetoric of the Army and the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu, are the return of all hostages and the elimination of Hamas’s military and government capabilities.
Israel said it was carrying out “precise and intelligence-based” operations in Rafah, and in one of them soldiers found passages in the walls between homes used by Hamas militants “to cross residences in densely populated neighborhoods.”
Exchange of fire with Hezbollah continues
At the same time, The Israeli Army attacked the infrastructure of the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon this Friday shortly after that it launched up to 35 rockets south of the border, according to a military statement.
“About 35 launches were detected from the territory of Lebanon towards the area of Kiryat Shmona and Kfar Szold,” the armed forces stated.
Throughout the daythe Shiite militia claimed responsibility for at least 13 attacks against different parts of northern Israel that, while the country is going through a heat wave, the open spaces in which the projectiles have landed have been set on fire.
In Metula, just about 150 kilometers from the border with Lebanon, the fall of a rocket has destroyed two houses and a bus – also used as a home – and unleashed a fire that firefighters took time to control.
In addition, the Army announced early in the morning that it had intercepted 11 Hezbollah drones, of the 16 launched by the militia in the last 72 hours, in a statement.
The attacks by Hezbollah, in support of the “firm Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip”, as the group usually says at the beginning of its bulletins, and Israel’s responses have experienced a marked change in recent days. escalation of intensity that raises fears of a war like the one both sides had in 2006.
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