The Gaza Strip is suffering an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe affecting the lives of thousands of people.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Professor Hossam Abu Safiya, announced that four children were martyred within one week due to malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital announced that 60 cases of poisoning had arrived in the past hours from Al-Shaimaa School in Beit Lahia to the hospital as a result of eating spoiled food due to famine caused by the shortage of food supplies.
Abu Safiya added in a press conference held in the northern Gaza Strip: “We lost a child in the nursery department during the last hours. He is the fourth child to die in the hospital during the last week due to malnutrition.”

He pointed out that, in the last two weeks, the hospital diagnosed more than 250 children with signs of malnutrition, warning that the Gaza Strip “is facing a real health catastrophe that began with children and may end with adults.”

Abu Safiya pointed out that the premature births that took place in the hospital during the recent period occurred due to the mothers’ malnutrition.

This starvation has led to an increased susceptibility of the population to cases of food poisoning, while cases of poisoning have been found among Palestinians due to eating expired canned food as a result of the severe food shortage in the Gaza Strip, according to what the government media office had announced on Monday.

The government media office said in a statement: “Residents eat expired canned goods, causing poisoning in large numbers of them.”

He added, “Famine and diseases are increasing among the residents of the Gaza Strip, especially children.”
He continued, “The usurping entity is practicing a policy of systematic starvation and preventing civilians in Gaza from receiving treatment.”