With a complete lack of baby milk and nutritional supplements, the continued closure of crossings, and the prevention of the entry of even the most basic supplies... 100,000 children are threatened with mass death within days.
Gaza - The Government Media Office in Gaza warned on Saturday of the risk of mass death for more than 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip due to the depletion of milk and nutritional supplements amid Israel's ongoing starvation policy, which coincides with the ongoing genocidal war that has been ongoing for more than 21 months.
"More than 100,000 children under the age of two, including 40,000 infants under the age of one, face imminent mass death within days, given the complete lack of infant formula and nutritional supplements, the continued closure of crossings, and the prevention of the entry of even the most basic supplies," the office said in a statement.
He warned that the Palestinians of Gaza were facing "an anticipated and deliberate mass killing being perpetrated slowly against infants whose mothers have been feeding them water instead of baby formula for days."
He explained that the Gaza Strip's hospitals and health centers have recently recorded "a daily increase in hundreds of cases of severe, life-threatening malnutrition, with no capacity to respond or treat them due to the near-collapse of the health sector and the lack of medical and food resources."
The government office called for "the immediate entry of baby milk and nutritional supplements into the Gaza Strip, and the immediate opening of the crossings without any conditions."
He also called for urgent international action to "stop the slow-motion genocide" being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and to break the "completely criminal" blockade.
He described the continued international silence as "blatant complicity in the genocide against the children of Gaza," holding Israel and the countries involved in this war "fully responsible for this imminent crime."
Despite international, UN, and Palestinian warnings of the looming famine in Gaza, Israel has continued to completely close the Strip's crossings to humanitarian, relief, and medical aid since March 2, escalating its starvation policy since the start of the war.
With the complete closure of crossings and the prevention of food and medicine from entering, famine has spread throughout the Strip, and symptoms of severe malnutrition have appeared among children and patients.
The death toll from hunger and malnutrition since October 2023 has risen to 122 Palestinians, including 83 children, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Friday.
This comes as Palestinians struggle to secure flour, as Israel targets them at US aid distribution points located in Israeli military zones.
Far from the oversight of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing an aid distribution plan on May 27 through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation," an organization supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.
The US-backed genocide left more than 203,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
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With infant formula and nutritional supplements completely unavailable, 100,000 children are at risk of mass death within days.