The scarcity of food and water in Gaza has left children and women across the Strip suffering a steep rise in malnutrition, the United Nations children’s fund warns.
One in six children in northern Gaza are now acutely malnourished, UNICEF says, a situation poised to “compound the already unbearable level of child deaths.”
The war broke out on October 7, when the Hamas terror group carried out a devastating attack on southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 253 hostages amid acts of brutality including widespread sexual violence.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign with the aim of securing the release of the hostages and toppling Hamas from power in Gaza.
The war has caused a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, with most of the population displaced and at risk of starvation.
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