Adnan Abu Hasna, media advisor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that all residents of the Gaza Strip are starving, including 200,000 children at risk due to malnutrition.
He added, in an interview with Al Jazeera, that one out of every five children being examined is suffering from malnutrition. Children are born short and underweight, and if they are not treated now, especially children between the ages of two and five, they are very likely to develop dwarfism and scoliosis, and there will be structural changes in their nature.
Abu Hasna pointed out that there is a deliberate engineering of starvation and chaos in the Gaza Strip, which results in 99% of the population not receiving a bag of flour, in addition to the indiscriminate shooting of Palestinians seeking aid.
He said that the Israeli occupation is preventing the entry of aid, whether that which UNRWA has (6,000 trucks), which are sufficient food for the residents of the Gaza Strip for three months, or that which United Nations organizations have, which is estimated at thousands of trucks.
If the political will and resolve were present, tens of thousands of tons of food stockpiled in warehouses could be brought in. The UNRWA official indicated that the solution to the famine crisis lies in allowing the UN system to deliver whatever aid it has, and that all the Israeli occupation has to do is open the crossings.
He said that UNRWA has operational plans, staff, and logistical capabilities, and that in January and February, it was able to reach one million Palestinians in four days and establish hundreds of distribution points within hours.
It's worth noting that the death toll from starvation in Gaza has risen to 127 Palestinians, including 85 children. Meanwhile, the government media office in the Strip warned of an impending mass killing of 100,000 children within days if baby formula is not delivered immediately.
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UNRWA: All Gaza residents are starving, and 200,000 children are at risk.