UN secretary general, António Guterres said that in north Gaza, one in six children under 2-years-old is acutely malnourished as he called for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”. It is, he says, “the only way to scale up delivery of aid to those who need it most”.
In north Gaza, 1 in 6 children under 2 years old is acutely malnourished.
In a post on X, he linked to a news release on the World Food Programme website. The news release reported that, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster, that a “steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip poses grave threats to their health”.
It also highlights the scarcity of food and safe water. It adds: “diseases are rife, compromising women and children’s nutrition and immunity and resulting in a surge of acute malnutrition.”
