News From Antiwar.com By Dave DeCamp
Two senior Israeli doctors have told The Times of Israel that children in Gaza are starving due to Israeli restrictions on aid, not because of pre-existing health problems they may have.
The doctors made the comments in response to backlash from Israeli officials and their supporters in the West over The New York Times publishing a photo of Mohammed al-Mutawaq, an 18-month-old emaciated child in Gaza, without specifying that he had a pre-existing health problem.
Due to the backlash, The New York Times issued an editor’s note explaining that al-Mutawaq had a condition, and many Israeli supporters in the West expressed outrage. But the most vulnerable, including children with medical conditions, are always the first to starve when famine sets in. Doctors and hospitals in Gaza have also reported children dying of malnutrition who didn’t have pre-existing conditions.
“I’ve been a pediatrician for 20 years, and we never see kids looking like this, even very chronically ill children. When we do, we would suspect abuse and would contact the police,” Dr. Michal Feldon, a senior pediatric doctor and department head at an Israeli hospital, told The Times of Israel.
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