The United Nations warns of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip, as a third of the children in the north suffer from acute malnutrition (Getty)
Only one hour after the 10-year-old Suhail was buried in the Gaza Strip, his younger brother Muhammad (8 years old) joined him.
The cause of the death of the two brothers was malnutrition and lack of medical care as a result of the devastating war that Israel has been waging against the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
When the father of the two children, Yahya Haboush (33 years old), returned from his son’s burial ceremony in one of the cemeteries in the city of Rafah - to which he was forcibly displaced from Gaza City in the north - they informed him upon his arrival of the death of his second child, Muhammad.
The bodies of the two children appeared extremely weak, as their bones protruded due to the lack of food and the lack of medical care, especially since they had suffered from cerebral palsy since their birth.
The two children lived in a tent in the city of Rafah, which suffers from a severe shortage of the basic necessities of life, including food, water, medicine, health care, and public hygiene, as a result of the ongoing war and the restrictions imposed by Israel.
In a post on his Facebook page, the father said that one hour after burying his son, the martyr Suhail, “the soul of the soul,” his second son, Muhammad, joined him as a martyr.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has not issued a comment regarding the death of the two fraternal children yet.
Famine takes the lives of 27 Palestinians
According to the Ministry of Health, the number of deaths in Gaza reached 27 Palestinians - including children - due to malnutrition resulting from the Israeli war on the Strip, which is inhabited by about 2.2 million Palestinians, and which has been besieged by Tel Aviv for 17 years.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported on March 16 that a third of children in the northern Gaza Strip under two years of age suffer from acute malnutrition, warning that “famine is looming on the horizon.”
As a result of the devastating war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of the Gaza Strip - especially in the Gaza and North governorates - are living in famine, as they face a severe shortage of basic life supplies in light of the presence of about two million displaced people in the Strip.
Although Arab and foreign countries carry out air drops of humanitarian aid into Gaza - especially in the northern Gaza Strip - they are insufficient and do not meet the urgent needs of the Palestinians, with calls to open the border crossings and flood the Gaza Strip with aid, before famine consumes more of its population.
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip resulted in the death of 32,226 Palestinians and the injury of 74,518 others - most of them children and women - and the aggression also caused massive destruction of infrastructure, leaving an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to Palestinian and international reports.
Source: Anadolu Agency