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Bel Trew – with Nedal Hamdouna in Rafah and J Shammla in Gaza City– speak to doctors and nurses facing babies dying of malnutrition, while pregnant women miscarry and children need IV drips, as UN warns besieged territory faces famine.
Medics reduced to eating animal feed to get through their gruelling shifts. Mothers unable to breastfeed because they are so weak and hungry. Pregnant women in intensive care – and even losing their babies – because they are so malnourished. Tiny bundles of newborns, crammed two to an incubator because space is running out.
This is the grim picture painted by doctors and nurses in the war-ravaged north of Gaza where a catastrophic famine is unfolding in real time.
Israel vehemently denies there are any limits on aid going into Gaza and maintains it is supporting air, land and sea deliveries of supplies. But the United Nation’s most senior officials say this humanitarian crisis is the result of Israel’s crippling restrictions and bombardment of the strip in retaliation for Hamas’s attack on 7 October.
“The situation at the hospital is catastrophic, we face severe shortages of everything from electricity, to staff, to food, to medicines to clean water, “ says Ahmed al-Kahlout, a senior nurse at Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza City, which is one of the only facilities in the war-ravaged north treating newborns and children.
“Around 70 per cent of the women giving birth in our hospitals end up in intensive care units due to low immunity and malnutrition,” he added…
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