ROME, Italy — A young Palestinian woman with severe wasting who was flown from Gaza to Italy this week for treatment has died, the hospital says.
The 20-year-old, named by Italian media as Marah Abu Zuhri, arrived in Pisa on an Italian government humanitarian flight overnight Wednesday-Thursday.
She had a “very complex clinical picture” and was “in a profound state of organic wasting,” the University Hospital of Pisa says in a statement.
On Friday, after undergoing tests and starting treatment, she had a sudden respiratory crisis and cardiac arrest and died.
The hospital does not elaborate on her condition, but Italian news agencies report that she was suffering from severe malnutrition.
The young woman had come to Italy with her mother on one of three Italian air force flights that arrived this week with a total of 31 patients and their companions.
They all suffered from serious congenital diseases, wounds, or amputations, the Italian foreign ministry said at the time.
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