Palestine, July 24 -- Israeli authorities' deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and health care workers themselves now fighting to survive, said Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today.
MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at its clinics, while they themselves struggle to find sufficient food. Across screenings at MSF facilities last week, 25 percent of children aged 6 months to 5 years old and pregnant and breastfeeding women were malnourished. At the MSF clinic in Gaza City, the number of people enrolled for malnutrition has quadrupled since May 18, while rates of severe malnutrition in children under 5 have tripled in the la...