UNICEF speaker: 10,000 children under 6 months of age need supplementary feeding in Gaza – the seventh day

Kazem Abu Khalaf, a UNICEF spokesman, confirmed that the children were the first to suffer since the return of the war on Gaza on March 18 at two in the morning, as it was the first blow to a large number of civilian martyrs, most of them children because they are most victims in those wars, whether in Palestine or in any region in the world.

A UNICEF spokesman added, in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”, that before last March, there was a stop to enter any type of aid since last March 2, and until now there are no aid to completely entering, whether food or medical assistance, stocks and nutritional formula for infants is very quickly.

Abu Khalaf continued: “We have enough amount of less than 400 children, and this is corresponding to 10,000 children under the age of 6 months who need supplementary nutrition. During the truce period, we began to get some children out of the bad food circle, but with the return of the war there became a relapse and a return to the first box, and the siege is no longer a logistical crisis, but it has become a direct cause of death for infants because they are the most affected group.”

He explained that hospitals are the most affected places and suffer from a lack of artificial respirators for newborns, intravenous antibiotics and basic food support, such as an venous supplement that collapses with the collapse of the health system under the weight of these restrictions besides a water crisis in northern Gaza, where residents get water in small quantities through trucks transported by UNICEF.

Kazem Abu Khalaf said that in the central and south governorate, the electrical current was cut off from the main water desalination plant located in Deir Al -Balj, which led to a decrease in water production by 85 %, which affected a million people, including 400 thousand children, and the rate of water use of the citizen in Gaza decreased from 15 liters per day, which is less than the normal rate globally to below 6 liters per day and with the rest of the fuel in the weeks, it will decrease with 4 liters, indicating that the reality in Gaza is painful to Gaza to Farm to imagine it is a maze from death and there is no safe place and the worst place for children who has become a large cemetery.

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