A malnourished two-year-old child at his family home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City.
Now that a ceasefire is in place, aid is trickling in to Gaza. There is reason to hope that, for all the lasting destruction there, the immediate crisis of hunger will come to an end. “It’s tempting to think about hunger as a temporary state, something that exists only until food can be accessed again,” Clayton Dalton writes. Some studies, however, suggest that its effects can be permanent. For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death—in a phenomenon known as refeeding syndrome. Experts on malnutrition discuss what happens to the body during starvation, drawing on Jewish doctors who perished in the Holocaust and researchers of a Dutch famine. “We are losing the next generation," an aid coördinator in Gaza said. "They will suffer for all their lives from this."
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Man made famine.
It should also be noted Israel is already in violation of the ‘ceasefire’ by not allowing the agreed upon aid to be let in, keeping the Rafah boarder closed, refusing to let outside help/experts into Gaza & continuing to kill Palestinians (including multiple children on a bus). It’s still an ongoing genocide despite the ‘ceasefire’ framing in western media.
They restricted the amount of food trucks and continue to kill Palestinians. This is not peace. There’s no freedom.