About 1,200 elderly people have died as a result of starvation in the Gaza Strip over the past two months

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor announced yesterday, Saturday, that approximately 1,200 elderly Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip over the past two months, as a result of the Israeli policy of starvation, malnutrition, and denial of medical care.

The monitor confirmed that the humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels, threatening the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.

The same source explained in a press release that the actual number of deaths may be higher than announced, given the absence of accurate mechanisms for documenting and recording deaths resulting from the repercussions of famine. The source indicated that health authorities in the Gaza Strip have officially documented 122 deaths related to hunger and malnutrition, including 83 children, in recent weeks alone. The monitor noted that its field team documented the deaths of dozens of elderly people in displacement camps due to starvation or lack of healthcare, without registering them as victims of famine. This is amid extremely harsh humanitarian conditions, with their families preferring to bury them immediately due to the lack of formal procedures.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that the Zionist entity’s systematic policy is based on the use of starvation and denial of medical treatment as tools of mass murder, within the context of a genocide that has been ongoing for more than 22 months, intensifying since October 7, 2020, and reaching its peak on March 2, with the aim of targeting the most vulnerable groups and making the humanitarian catastrophe a central means of executing genocide.