327dead in Gaza in 80 days due to malnutrition and lack of medicine

The Civil Defense in Gaza announced the death of 4-year-old Mohammed Mustafa Yassin, due to malnutrition due to the ongoing Israeli starvation policy and blockade.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a video statement, "Mohammed Yassin died of starvation because the occupation prevented the entry of food and medical aid."

"Mohammed was not the first child, and the fear has become certain that he will not be the last, in light of the ongoing Israeli famine war," he added.

Basal appeared in a video carrying the body of the child Yassin, after he died from malnutrition in Gaza City.

Earlier on Saturday, the government media office in Gaza announced that during the 80 days of the Israeli blockade, 58 people had died from malnutrition, and 242 others had died from food and medicine shortages, most of them elderly.

He pointed out that 26 kidney patients lost their lives due to the lack of nutritional and therapeutic care, in addition to more than 300 miscarriages among pregnant women due to a lack of nutrients necessary for the continuation of pregnancy.

State media strongly condemned the occupation's continued criminal policies of closing crossings, imposing a blockade, implementing a starvation policy, and then engineering starvation against civilians, children, and vulnerable groups.

He also held the occupation and the countries participating in the genocide fully responsible for these heinous crimes, which are being carried out in full view of the world and on live television.

The Government Media Office called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities and intervene immediately and urgently to save civilians in the Gaza Strip from the catastrophe of famine. They also called on the occupation to open the crossings and allow the immediate entry of sufficient humanitarian aid, and to halt the policy of silent and loud genocide practiced by the occupation against them through daily starvation and killing.