UN: “Staggering” rates of acute malnutrition among Gaza children

According to the latest findings from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), one in five children in Gaza City suffers from malnutrition, with cases increasing daily.

In a social media post on Thursday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini quoted one of his field colleagues in the Strip as saying: “The people of Gaza are neither dead nor alive, but walking corpses.”

Mr. Lazzarini said that when malnutrition among children rises, coping mechanisms fail, access to food and care is lost, and “famine silently begins to spread.”