Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
Nearly 2,90,000 children in Gaza are at the brink of death amid Israel’s two-month-long blockade of humanitarian aid into the territory, said Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) on Sunday.
According to GMO, more than 3,500 children below the age of five years “face imminent death by starvation” while some 70,000 children have been hospitalised in the enclave due to severe malnutrition as Israel has blocked the entry of crucial aid, including food, water, medicines and fuel, into the war ravaged territory.
“Under this systematic blockade, more than 3,500 children under the age of five face imminent death by starvation, while approximately 290,000 children are on the brink of death,” the GMO said in a statement on Sunday.
“At a time when 1.1 million children daily lack the minimum nutritional requirements for survival, this crime is being perpetrated by the ‘Israeli’ occupation using starvation as a weapon, amid shameful international silence,” it added.
At least 57 Palestinians have so far starved to death in Gaza, causing international outrage against Israel’s alleged weaponisation of starvation, which amounts to a war crime.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
