Palestinian doctors warn starving Gaza children could die ‘not in weeks but days’

A Palestinian doctor in Gaza warned on Friday that without urgent intervention providing therapeutic food and medication, children facing starvation in the besieged territory could die “not in weeks, actually, but in days,” Anadolu reports. Speaking during a virtual briefing moderated by American actor and activist Cynthia Nixon on starvation in Gaza, attacks on health care, and detention of Palestinian medical personnel, Dr. Rana Soboh described an “alarming” surge in severe acute malnutrition among children under five, particularly in the north. “You know what’s happened in North Gaza? What I have witnessed is beyond alarming,” said Soboh, who serves as the nutrition officer in Gaza for MedGlobal, a US-based humanitarian organization active in the Palestinian enclave. “Some of the children we […]