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Gaza health ministry reports 33 deaths from malnutrition in 48 hours
At least 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, have died from malnutrition in the past 48 hours. UN Secretary General António Guterres told the UN Security Council that “starvation is knocking on every door” in Gaza.
The deaths of 11 adults and four children were reported over the past day, a spokesman told the BBC.
It came as UN Secretary General António Guterres told the UN Security Council that “malnutrition is soaring” and “starvation is knocking on every door” in Gaza.
He has said the 2.1 million population is facing grave shortages of basic supplies and that Israel has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian assistance by the UN and its partners.
The Israeli military body responsible for co-ordinating aid deliveries, Cogat, accused Hamas of “conducting a false campaign regarding the humanitarian situation”.
It has insisted that Israel acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring it does not reach Hamas.
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Gaza health ministry says 33 people died from malnutrition in 48 hours
Deaths of 11 adults and four children reported over the past day. UN Secretary General António Guterres says “starvation is knocking on every door” Israeli foreign ministry says it has allowed 4,400 lorry loads of aid to enter Gaza over past two months. But UN says it was only permitted to bring in 1,600 lorries of aid between May and July – an average of around 27 per day. Israel insists it acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring it does not reach Hamas. Israeli restrictions on humanitarian and supplies because of the ongoing hostilities have led to shortages of food, medicine and fuel. UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says it is receiving “SOS” messages from its staff in Gaza, saying they are desperately short of food. Food aid is the only way for most people to access any food because prices in local markets have skyrocketed. A 1kg (2.2lb) bag of flour now cost over $100 (£74)
The deaths of 11 adults and four children were reported over the past day, a spokesman told the BBC.
It came as UN Secretary General António Guterres told the UN Security Council that “malnutrition is soaring” and “starvation is knocking on every door” in Gaza.
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The 2.1 million population is facing grave shortages of basic supplies, he said, and Israel has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian assistance by the UN and its partners.
Israel, which controls Gaza’s crossings, has insisted that it acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring it does not reach Hamas.
International journalists, including the BBC, are blocked by Israel from entering Gaza independently, so it is difficult to verify the number of reported malnutrition deaths.
However, footage filmed by a local Palestinian journalist working for the BBC at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah showed the emaciated body of a man called Ahmed al-Hasanat, who doctors said had died from malnutrition on Tuesday.
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Health officials said a 13-year-old boy, Abdul Hamid al-Ghalban, also died in the southern city of Khan Younis. Photos from AFP and Anadolu news agencies showed the teenager’s small body being prepared for burial at Nasser hospital and then carried in a white shroud.
Palestinian media meanwhile posted a video showing the body of a six-week-old boy, Yousef al-Safadi, who health officials said died at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City due to malnutrition.
The US-based medical humanitarian group MedGlobal also said in a statement that its nutritional teams in Gaza had witnessed five severely malnourished children, aged between three months and four years old, die within the past three days.
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“This is a deliberate and human-made disaster,” MedGlobal’s executive director, Joseph Belliveau, said. “Those children died because there is not enough food in Gaza and not enough medicines, including IV fluids and therapeutic formula, to revive them.”
MedGlobal said that since the beginning of July, cases of acutely malnourished, mainly children, had nearly tripled at its facilities, indicating a widespread food crisis.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) also said that it was receiving “SOS” messages from its staff in Gaza, saying they were desperately short of food.
Some Unrwa doctors and aid workers had reportedly been fainting while working, due to hunger and exhaustion, it added.
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Earlier this week, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that malnutrition was surging, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment, and that nearly one person in three was not eating for days.
It noted that food aid was the only way for most people to access any food because prices in local markets had skyrocketed. It said a 1kg (2.2lb) bag of flour now cost over $100 (£74).
The WFP called for a “massive scale-up in food aid distribution” and said it had food supplies nearby and teams on the ground ready to respond.
The UN says a minimum of 600 aid lorries a day need to enter Gaza. However, the UN Organisation for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was only permitted to bring in 1,600 lorries of aid between May and July – an average of around 27 per day.
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The Israeli foreign ministry said on Sunday that it had allowed 4,400 lorry loads of aid to enter Gaza over the past two months, and that 700 loads were waiting to be picked up by UN agencies from crossing points.
The UN has said that it struggles to pick up and distribute supplies because of the ongoing hostilities, Israeli restrictions on humanitarian movements, and fuel shortages.
Israel imposed a total blockade of aid deliveries to Gaza at the start of March and resumed its military offensive against Hamas two weeks later, collapsing a two-month ceasefire. It said it wanted to put pressure on the armed group to release its remaining Israeli hostages.
Although the blockade was partially eased in late May, amid warnings of a looming famine from global experts, the shortages of food, medicine and fuel have grown worse.
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There have also been almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed while seeking aid since Israel and the US helped to establish a new aid system to bypass the existing one overseen by the UN.
The new system, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), started at the end of May, and uses US private security contractors to hand out food parcels from sites inside Israeli military zones.
Israel says the system prevents supplies from being stolen by Hamas.
But the UN and its partners have refused to co-operate with the GHF, saying it is unsafe and violates the humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, and independence.
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On Tuesday, the UN human rights office said that it had recorded the killing of 766 people by the Israeli military in the vicinity of the GHF’s aid sites since they began operating eight weeks ago. Another 288 killings had been recorded along routes of UN and other aid convoys.
“We are seeing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles,” António Guterres told the UN Security Council. “This system is being denied the conditions to function, denied the space to deliver, denied the safety to save lives.”
He also said that the Israeli military’s intensifying operations and evacuation orders in Deir al-Balah meant “devastation is being layered upon devastation”.
On Monday night, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the Israeli ground operation in Deir al-Balah had compromised its efforts to continue working, after its staff residence and main warehouse came under attack.
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The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
At least 59,106 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s health ministry.
At least 101 people, including 80 children, die of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza
At least 101 people, including 80 children, die of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza. 21 of those deaths have come in the last 72 hours, doctors on the ground in Gaza revealed on Tuesday. UN chief Antonio Guterres warns Gaza’s ‘last lifelines’ are collapsing, with humanitarian conditions deteriorating at an ‘accelerating’ pace. Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, preventing aid deliveries from entering the territory until trucks were again allowed in again in May. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned Israel could face further sanctions, insisting the UK is ‘not complicit’ in what we’re seeing in Gaza, but stands by the government’s record. He said he ‘regrets hugely’ not being able to bring about the end of this ‘horrendous’ war.
Food distributed to Palestinians in Gaza under Israeli attacks. Picture: Getty
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More than 100 people, mostly children, have died of malnutrition since Israel launched its assault on Gaza in 2023, new figures from Palestinian officials show.
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At least 101 people, 80 being children, have died of hunger in the wake of October 7, 2023, with most deaths coming in recent weeks.
21 of those deaths have come in the last 72 hours, doctors on the ground in Gaza revealed on Tuesday.
The UN has blamed rising hunger and malnutrition on Israel’s continued blockade of Gaza, which has seen the region’s people “drip-fed” aid, a policy the UK government has branded “inhumane.”
Read more: UK joins 27 nations calling for Israel to end war in Gaza as Lammy condemns ‘inhumane drip feeding’ of aid
Read more: Israel could face further sanctions, Lammy warns – as he insists UK ‘not complicit in what we’re seeing’ in Gaza
Children are dying from starvation in Gaza. Picture: Alamy
Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, added that around 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger.
At least 70,000 of them are in a state of malnutrition, he warned.
Gaza’s health ministry said 33 people in total have died from malnutrition in last 48 hours.
It comes as the UN chief Antonio Guterres warns Gaza’s ‘last lifelines’ are collapsing, with humanitarian conditions deteriorating at an ‘accelerating’ pace.
In a statement, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson said Gaza’s humanitarian system ‘is being impeded, undermined and endangered’.
A UN spokesperson says Mr Guterres ‘deplores the growing reports of children and adults suffering from malnutrition’ occurring in Gaza, adding: ‘The population in Gaza remains gravely undersupplied with the basic necessities of life’.
Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, preventing aid deliveries from entering the territory until trucks were again allowed in again in May.
In a post on X, the UN’s Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said the shortages caused food prices to surge by 40 times.
It added that the aid stockpiled in its warehouses outside Gaza could feed ‘the entire population for over three months.’
Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Picture: Alamy
Speaking to LBC on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned Israel could face further sanctions, insisting the UK is ‘not complicit’ in what we’re seeing in Gaza.
He said he ‘regrets hugely’ not being able to bring about the end of this ‘horrendous’ war, but stands by the government’s record.
Speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari, he said: “We suspended arms sales that could be used in Gaza. We restored funding to UNRWA. We suspended a free trade agreement discussion with the Israeli government.
“Three packages of sanctions for violent settlers. We sanctioned Israeli government ministers. So we have acted and we will act further.”
Mr Lammy expressed his continued support for an “enduring ceasefire, not a pause”, adding: “This war has got to come to an end.”
Gaza health ministry says 33 people died from malnutrition in 48 hours
Gaza health ministry says 33 people died from malnutrition in 48 hours. Israeli Army quoted as saying that Hamas was “conducting a false campaign” The UN says a minimum of 600 lorries of aid must be ready to enter Gaza each day. UN agency for Palestinian refugees says staff in Gaza are desperately short of food. The hunger crisis is the worst in living memory, residents tell the BBC. It comes as UN Secretary General António Guterres says “starvation is knocking on every door” in the Gaza Strip. He says Israel has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian assistance by the UN and its partners in the region. It is difficult to verify the number of reported malnutrition deaths as international journalists are blocked by Israel from entering Gaza independently. Some Unrwa doctors and aid workers had reportedly been fainting while working, due to hunger and exhaustion, it added. The World Food Programme (WFP) reported that malnutrition was surging, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment, and that nearly one person in three was not eating for days.
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Anadolu via Getty Images Thirteen-year-old Abdul Hamid al-Ghalban was among the four children who reportedly died of malnutrition over the past 24 hours
At least 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, have died as a result of malnutrition across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. The deaths of 11 adults and four children were reported over the past day, a spokesman told the BBC. It came as UN Secretary General António Guterres told the UN Security Council that “malnutrition is soaring” and “starvation is knocking on every door” in Gaza. He has said the 2.1 million population is facing grave shortages of basic supplies and that Israel has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian assistance by the UN and its partners.
The Israeli military body responsible for co-ordinating aid deliveries, Cogat, accused Hamas of “conducting a false campaign regarding the humanitarian situation”. It has insisted that Israel acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring it does not reach Hamas.
International journalists, including the BBC, are blocked by Israel from entering Gaza independently, so it is difficult to verify the number of reported malnutrition deaths. However, footage filmed by a local Palestinian journalist working for the BBC at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah showed the emaciated body of a man called Ahmed al-Hasanat, who doctors said had died from malnutrition on Tuesday. Health officials said a 13-year-old boy, Abdul Hamid al-Ghalban, also died in the southern city of Khan Younis. Photos from AFP and Anadolu news agencies showed the teenager’s small body being prepared for burial at Nasser hospital and then carried in a white shroud. Palestinian media meanwhile posted a video showing the body of a six-week-old boy, Yousef al-Safadi, who health officials said died at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City due to malnutrition. The US-based medical humanitarian group MedGlobal also said in a statement that its nutritional teams in Gaza had witnessed five severely malnourished children, aged between three months and four years old, die within the past three days. “This is a deliberate and human-made disaster,” MedGlobal’s executive director, Joseph Belliveau, said. “Those children died because there is not enough food in Gaza and not enough medicines, including IV fluids and therapeutic formula, to revive them.” MedGlobal said that since the beginning of July, cases of acutely malnourished, mainly children, had nearly tripled at its facilities, indicating a widespread food crisis. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) also said that it was receiving “SOS” messages from its staff in Gaza, saying they were desperately short of food. Some Unrwa doctors and aid workers had reportedly been fainting while working, due to hunger and exhaustion, it added. Gaza residents also told the BBC that the hunger crisis was the worst in living memory. Osama Tawfiq, a veteran employee of al-Shifa hospital, said: “I go to work hungry and leave my six children behind, also hungry.” “There is no food for the patients. Children are dying of hunger inside the hospital. I’ve worked here for 20 years, and never in my life have I seen someone die from starvation until now.” Mohammed Mahmoud, a father of four, said his family were surviving on tiny amounts of food. “We haven’t eaten anything except a few lentils in two days,” he said. “We mix a little table salt into a glass of water and drink it, just to get some electrolytes.” Earlier this week, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that malnutrition was surging, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment, and that nearly one person in three was not eating for days. It noted that food aid was the only way for most people to access any food because prices in local markets had skyrocketed. It said a 1kg (2.2lb) bag of flour now cost over $100 (£74). The WFP called for a “massive scale-up in food aid distribution” and said it had food supplies nearby and teams on the ground ready to respond. The UN says a minimum of 600 aid lorries a day need to enter Gaza. However, the UN Organisation for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was only permitted to bring in 1,600 lorries of aid between May and July – an average of around 27 per day. On Tuesday evening, Israeli Army Radio quoted Cogat as saying that Hamas was “conducting a false campaign regarding the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, as a pressure tool within the negotiations” for a new ceasefire and hostage deal taking place in Qatar. Israeli military spokesman Lt Col Nadav Shoshani also posted a video on social media that he said showed 950 lorry loads of aid “currently waiting in Gaza for international organisations to pick up and distribute to Gazan civilians”. “This is after Israel facilitated the aid entry into Gaza,” he added. The UN has said that it struggles to pick up and distribute supplies because of the ongoing hostilities, Israeli restrictions on humanitarian movements, and fuel shortages.
AFP via Getty Images Queues of lorries, packed with aid, were a common sight at crossings into Gaza when Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the territory
German officials up in arms over oil, gas deposit found in Poland
A major oil and gas deposit has been discovered in neighbouring Poland. The find off the Polish Baltic coast was hailed as a possible “breakthrough moment” in Poland. But officials across the border in Germany were quick to point out that extracting fossil fuels should not take priority in times of climate change. The Wolin East offshore oil field is said to be located around 6 kilometres from the port city of Świnoujście on the fringes of north-western Poland. Parts of the city are located on the island of Usedom, which is divided between Germany and Poland. Mining could begin in three to four years, with the field estimated to be able to cover 4% to 5% of Poland’s annual oil demand for several years, according to Galos, a Polish company.
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Local politicians in north-eastern Germany were up in arms on Tuesday, after news broke that a major oil and gas deposit has been discovered in neighbouring Poland, with some experts also cautioning against extraction.
The find off the Polish Baltic coast by Canadian company Central European Petroleum (CEP) was hailed as a possible “breakthrough moment” in Poland, but officials across the border in Germany were quick to point out that extracting fossil fuels should not take priority in times of climate change.
“Our future does not lie in oil from the Baltic Sea, but in energy from the sun, wind and biomass,” said Till Backhaus, environment minister of the coastal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which borders Poland.
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“The project stands for a backward-looking industrial policy in terms of climate policy, which is contrary to the interests of the environment and tourism on the German side,” he added.
Major breakthrough?
The Wolin East offshore oil field discovered by CEP is said to be located around 6 kilometres from the port city of Świnoujście on the fringes of north-western Poland. Parts of the city are located on the island of Usedom, which is divided between Germany and Poland.
According to the results of test drilling, the recoverable reserves of crude oil and natural gas are estimated at 200 million barrels of oil equivalent.
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CEP said the Wolin East site is estimated to represent “the largest conventional hydrocarbon field” ever discovered in Poland and “one of the largest conventional oil discoveries in Europe in the past decade.”
If the deposit is confirmed, this “may prove to be one of the breakthrough moments in the history of hydrocarbon exploration in Poland,” said the country’s chief national geologist Krzysztof Galos.
“The future development of this site may significantly contribute to strengthening Poland’s energy security and reducing its dependence on external hydrocarbon suppliers,” he told news agency PAP.
Mining could begin in three to four years, with the field estimated to be able to cover 4% to 5% of Poland’s annual oil demand for several years, according to Galos.
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CEP has held a licence for exploration off the western Polish coast since 2017.
Officials and experts sound alarm
Officials in the German part of Usedom were less euphoric, however, with the mayor of the town of Heringsdorf noting the area’s status as a nature conservation area.
“We are a spa and holiday resort. We do everything we can to keep our beaches, our town and the sea clean,” said Laura Isabelle Marisken. “Heavy industrial gas and oil extraction right on our doorstep, it’s obvious that this is a massive intrusion into our natural environment.”
The German Institute for Economic Research also advised against exploiting the oil field, noting not only possible considerable negative consequences for tourism, but also the risk of cross-border pollution caused by an accident.
“In addition, the promotion of fossil fuels thwarts climate protection goals,” said Claudia Kemfert, head of the institute’s Energy, Transport and Environment Department. “The costs and benefits [of the project] are therefore disproportionate.”