AhlulBayt News Agency: A four-year-old Palestinian child has died due to severe malnutrition caused by the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.
Reports on Sunday, citing sources at Gaza City's Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, confirmed that prolonged malnutrition was the cause of Mohammad Mustafa Yassin’s death. His father was killed in an Israeli bombing about eight months ago.
Israel has enforced a deliberate policy of starvation on Gaza while continuing its military assault on the territory.
Medical sources have reported dozens of confirmed malnutrition-related deaths and hundreds more due to a lack of access to food and medicine.
Israeli forces have created a state of famine for Gaza’s 2.4 million population by blocking aid convoys stranded at closed border crossings, preventing them from entering.
Meanwhile, the regime has intensified its ground and air attacks against Gazans, launching large-scale military offensives in both northern and southern Gaza.
The Palestinian people of Gaza are facing “the worst humanitarian crisis” since Israel launched its genocidal war against Gaza in October 2023, with civilians at imminent risk of famine, according to a joint statement by 80 countries to the United Nations on Friday.
Hamas welcomed the statement, saying:
“We welcome the joint statement issued by 80 UN member states, which confirmed that the Gaza Strip is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the beginning of the Zionist aggression in October 2023, and called for the protection of Palestinian civilians under international humanitarian law.”
Hamas further emphasized that breaking the Israeli blockade on Gaza requires these countries "to effectively pressure for the relief of our people, halt the crime of starvation, and break the brutal siege imposed upon them."
Meanwhile, the United Nations has described the limited humanitarian aid reaching Gaza as “a needle in a haystack”, confirming that the Palestinian enclave remains trapped in a catastrophic humanitarian emergency.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, warned that to sustain Gaza’s starving population, a minimum of 500–600 aid trucks per day were required.
The World Food Programme estimates that two million people are at risk of severe starvation and famine unless immediate action is taken.
Aid groups cautioned that civilians, especially children and infants, are now at risk of death by starvation.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza has left some 54,000 Palestinians dead and over twice as many wounded.
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