A humanitarian group operating a clinic in the Gaza Strip says 21% of the pregnant women it has treated in the last three weeks are suffering from malnutrition.
Project Hope, which runs a primary health clinic in the central town of Deir al-Balah, says that 11% of the children under 5 it has treated during the same period are also malnourished.
UN officials say the Israel-Hamas war has pushed a quarter of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians to the brink of famine.
Project Hope says “people have reported eating nothing but white bread as fruit, vegetables, and other nutrient-dense foods are nearly impossible to find or too expensive.”
Malnutrition is especially dangerous for pregnant women and newborns, who require additional nutrients.
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