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At least 60,034 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the Gaza War Fleed in October 2023, according to the Enclave Ministry of Health.
The dark milestone was reached Tuesday, with medical sources saying in Al Jazeera that at least 62 Palestinians, including 19 aid seekers, were killed since dawn, despite “breaks” in the fight to provide essential humanitarian aid.
Local accounts indicate that Israel has used trapped robots, as well as tanks and drones, in what residents describe as one of the most bloody nights in recent weeks, said Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera, postponing Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza.
“This is a sign of a possible maneuver of an imminent Israeli field, although Israel has not yet confirmed the objectives of the attack,” he said.
The latest attacks take place as the “worst scenario of the famine” takes place in Gaza, according to a new report of the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC), a global hunger monitoring system.
“The latest data indicates that the famine thresholds have been affected for food consumption in most of the Gaza strip and acute malnutrition in Gaza City,” he said in the report.
“In the midst of relentless conflicts, mass trips, seriously limited humanitarian access and the collapse of essential services, including health care, the crisis has reached an alarming and deadly turning point,” added the IPC document.
Food consumption has deteriorated sharply, with one in three people without food for days at a time, he said.
Malnutrition increased rapidly during the first half of July, with more than 20,000 children admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July. More than 3,000 of them are seriously ill -fed.
The IPC alert is accompanied by the backdrop of its latest analysis published in May, which has planned that in September, the whole population of Gaza would face high levels of acute food shortages, with more than 500,000 people who should be in a state of extreme food deprivation, famine and detention, unless Israel lifts its blockage and stops its military campaign.
The genocidal war of Israel against Gaza and the humanitarian blockade, which it raised in part in March, continues to plunge the Palestinian territory into an increasingly disastrous malnutrition crisis while at least 147 people, including 88 children, died of malnutrition since the start of the war, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
Famine affects all sectors of the population, with Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN women, saying that a million women and girls in Gaza face the “unthinkable choice” of hungry or to risk their lives when looking for food.
“This horror must end,” said Bahous in an article on social networks, calling for unhindered access to humanitarian aid in the band, the release of captives and a permanent cease-fire.
Particularly affected babies
The medical staff of the Gaza hospitals sees babies seriously ill-nourished “without muscles and fatty fabrics, just the skin above the bone,” the director of pediatrics and maternity at Nasser, Ahmed al-Farra, in Al Jazeera.
The long-term consequences of malnutrition for babies, infants and children are serious because they still develop their central nervous system in the first three years of their lives, said Al-Farra.
Babies who have been ill -nourished will not have the required folic acid, the B1 complex and the polyunsaturated fatty acids which are essential to the composition of the central nervous system.
Al-Farrah said malnutrition can affect cognitive development in the future, making it difficult for a child to read and write and lead to depression and anxiety.
Tanya Haj Hassan, doctor at doctors NGO Sans Frontières (MSF), explains that serious health risks remain even after the food becomes available.
“The reality is that the problem does not end when food arrives … Malnutrition has an impact on all aspects of the body function,” Hassan told Al Jazeera.
“All cells in your body are changed by this. In the intestines, the cells die.
“Your heart cells are becoming weak and lightened. Connections are affected, the heart rate slows down. These children often die from heart failure, even when refused,” she added.
“They also have fatal changes in salts; they can also lead to fatal heart rate. They are more prone to sepsis and shocks,” said the doctor, in reference to oral rehydration salt solutions, which are generally administered to people with malnutrition.
“(Patients can face) low blood pressure, skin lesions, hypothermia, overload of liquid, infection, vitamins deficiencies that can affect vision and bones.”
