PA minister claims 29 Gazans died in recent days from starvation-related causes

The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority health minister claims that 29 children and elderly people have died from starvation-related deaths in Gaza in recent days and that many thousands more are at risk.

“In the last couple of days we lost 29 children,” Majed Abu Ramadan tells reporters, describing them as “starvation-related deaths.” He later clarifies that the total includes elderly people as well as children.

Asked to react to earlier debunked comments by the UN aid chief to the BBC that 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours without aid, he alleges that “the number 14,000 is very realistic, may be even underestimating [the scale].”

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