MALNUTRITION THREATENS 55,000 PREGNANT WOMEN IN GAZA, HEALTH OFFICIAL WARNS

Thu 14 August 2025:

The director of al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza has told Al Jazeera Arabic that 55,000 pregnant women in the enclave are now suffering from malnutrition, as he warned of several spiralling health crises in the Strip.

He said the hospital is unable to provide services due to the total collapse of the health system, and that three children with paralysis are at risk of dying.

With no safe drinking water in Gaza City, cases of gastroenteritis are also rising, and there is nothing available for heart patients in the enclave, he added.

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Hunger-related deaths in Gaza set to soar, health official warns

Mohammed Zaqout, Gaza’s director of general hospitals, says at least 106 children are among 235 people who have died from hunger as the Israeli-induced famine continues.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic, Zaqout urged the international community to intervene to allow the entry of much-needed aid into the besieged enclave before death as a result of malnutrition spreads into most communities in Gaza.

“These cases will soon be in the thousands, if nothing changes,” Zaqout said.

“Children are among the weakest and most vulnerable to malnutrition,” he said. “We have no treatments to save them, not even intravenous feeding, which is used in emergency cases like those we are seeing now.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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