Radio Havana Cuba | Gaza officials say more than 3,500 children face death from Israel's deliberate policy of starvation as a weapon of war

Gaza City, June 4 (RHC).- Israel's starvation policy threatens the lives of more than 3,500 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, amid “deafening international silence,” the UN office warned. Gaza media.

The government media office said in a statement Monday that “more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of dying in Gaza due to Israel's policy of starving children.” He also warned of “a serious shortage of milk and food, a lack of nutritional supplements and the refusal of vaccination.”

Since Israeli military forces launched the incursion into Rafah in early May, access to health care has been further devastated. Regime forces closed the border to injured people seeking treatment and blocked already scarce humanitarian aid.

All this is happening “amid deafening international silence,” the media office added.

Many of these children are now malnourished or disabled, according to UNICEF's director of private fundraising and partnerships.

UNICEF warned that the current situation in Rafah “is a disaster for children. “If nutritional supplies, especially ready-to-use therapeutic foods, used to combat malnutrition among children, cannot be distributed, treatment of more than 3,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition will be interrupted,” he said. said Jonathan Crickx, head of communications for UNICEF in Palestine.

An estimated 1.7 million people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced – half of whom are children, who do not have sufficient access to water, food, fuel and medicines.

Earlier, a Palestinian child died of starvation in central Gaza, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.