UN experts declare famine has spread throughout Gaza Strip
United Nations experts have declared that a famine has spread throughout the Gaza Strip.
Of Gaza's 36 hospitals, only 13 are "partially functioning," the UN World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said Tuesday.
In northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital alone, 60 cases of severe acute malnutrition were detected last week, according to the U.N. World Health Organization.
"Fayez Ataya, who was barely six months old, died on 30 May 2024 and 13-year-old Abdulqader Al-Serhi died on 1 June 2024 at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. Nine-year-old Ahmad Abu Reida died on 3 June 2024 in the tent sheltering his displaced family in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. All three children died from malnutrition and lack of access to adequate healthcare," U.N. experts said.
"With the death of these children from starvation despite medical treatment in central Gaza, there is no doubt that famine has spread from northern Gaza into central and southern Gaza," U.N. experts said.
-ABC News' Emmanuelle Saliba and Camilla Alcini