World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza. Ghebreyesus also said his organization visited al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals this weekend for the first time since the conflict began in October last year.
In a post on social media later, he said he got 'serious results' after visiting the hospital. In the post, Ghebreyesus wrote, 10 children died due to lack of food and children in Gaza suffered from "extreme malnutrition". Hospital buildings were also destroyed.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that at least 15 children died of malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Palestinian state news agency Wafa reported on Monday that 16 children had died in a hospital in the southern city of Rafah as of Sunday.
Ghebreyesus says there is extreme malnutrition in northern Gaza. Children are starving to death. There are severe shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, and hospital buildings have also been destroyed. An estimated 300,000 people in the Gaza Strip now live with very little food or clean water.
In the post given on the social media X (formerly Twitter), he also said, "10 children have died due to lack of food."
"This was the first WHO visit to northern Gaza in months, despite our efforts to have more regular visits," Gebreasus wrote. The situation at Al-Awda Hospital is particularly dire, with one of its buildings destroyed.
At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip face catastrophic levels of food insecurity, a senior UN official has warned.
This population is one-fourth of the total population of the territory. One in six children under the age of two is severely malnourished in northern Gaza.
The regional director of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said, "We were afraid of child deaths, it is happening here. Malnutrition is destroying the Gaza Strip.'
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