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UN: Over 60,000 Palestinian children face malnutrition in Gaza Strip
2025-04-13 09:20:01 / BOTA
Over 60,000 children under the age of 6 in Gaza are facing malnutrition, according to the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
Speaking at Turkey's Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF), Sigrid Kaag said that humanitarian aid sent to the region through the UN during the January 19 ceasefire reached those in need without any problems, but that since March 2, "aid has not been allowed."
Kaag also said that the equipment needed for aid workers in the region to do their work is insufficient and the fuel needed to run hospitals has run out, adding that there have also been interruptions in the distribution of humanitarian aid due to insufficient fuel and equipment.
She stressed that under international law, Israel is obligated to ensure that aid can be delivered to Gaza and that it is imperative that humanitarian aid be delivered there as quickly as possible.
Kaag said Israel's attacks on Gaza are horrific not only for civilians, but also for international aid workers, most of them Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli military renewed a deadly offensive in Gaza on March 18, breaking the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement reached in January.
Nearly 51,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli offensive since October 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its war in the enclave.
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