21 starving children die in 72 hours, and 45 suffer from acute flaccid paralysis amid ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

21 starving children die in 72 hours, and 45 suffer from acute flaccid paralysis amid ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.





Palestinian sources said that Israeli drones bombed homes in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early Wednesday, while Israeli tanks opened heavy fire east of the camp.

Sources indicated that the Israeli occupation army carried out new house-bombing operations in the eastern areas of Gaza City early Wednesday morning. They confirmed that occupation aircraft launched several raids last night on the city of Deir al-Balah and its surroundings in the central Gaza Strip. At the same time, occupation forces fired flares into the sky of the city, which continues to be infiltrated to the south and east.

A girl was killed and others were injured tonight in an Israeli airstrike on a tent housing displaced people in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. This attack came less than 24 hours after the occupation forces committed a massacre against displaced people in the same camp.

In a related development, Palestinian media outlets published footage documenting Israeli drones chasing and targeting a starving child and woman searching for food and water in Gaza City, leading to their deaths.

Starvation and serious diseases

For its part, Al-Shifa Medical Complex announced on Tuesday that 21 children had been killed in the past 72 hours due to the starvation imposed by the occupation on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Mahmoud Abu Salmiya, director of the medical complex, said, "The deaths that were transferred over the past 72 hours to three hospitals in the north and south of the Gaza Strip reflect the escalating catastrophe." He expressed his fear of the frightening death toll that may result from the starvation the Strip's residents are suffering from. He added that 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger, including 70,000 children who have entered the "malnutrition" stage.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced Tuesday evening that 45 cases of "acute flaccid paralysis" had been recorded in the Strip over the past two months, marking an unprecedented increase due to deteriorating environmental and health conditions and malnutrition.

She added: "With the inability to diagnose, these cases may be caused by polio or Guillain-Barré syndrome."

The ministry linked this dangerous increase to the catastrophic environmental and health conditions facing Gaza's residents amid the ongoing Israeli aggression. It pointed to multiple factors, including water pollution, the collapse of sanitation services, the accumulation of waste, the spread of infectious diseases, severe malnutrition, and weakened immunity.

This comes at a time when Gaza's hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of medicines and supplies, and a near-total collapse in their diagnostic and treatment capabilities. The Ministry of Health announced earlier Tuesday that medical services had been suspended in six health centers, including a hospital and the central oxygen station, due to fuel shortages and Israel's insistence on preventing its entry, as it has completely closed the crossings since last March. It warned that services in the remaining hospitals in the Gaza Strip would cease within 48 hours.

It also announced that the death toll from famine and malnutrition since October 2023 has risen to 101, including 80 children, after the deaths of 15 Palestinians, including four children, in the past 24 hours.

The government media office in Gaza warned last Sunday that the Strip was on the verge of "mass death," after more than 140 days of border closures.

Negotiation process

A Hebrew newspaper reported Tuesday evening that US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Doha in the coming days if progress is made in ceasefire negotiations and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel.

The Times of Israel quoted an unnamed informed source as saying that the US envoy's travel to Doha is contingent on tangible progress in the ceasefire negotiations.

He believed that Witkov's presence would be an indication that an agreement was close. He emphasized that Witkov did not intend to join the negotiations until they reached a stage where the parties were ready to announce a final understanding.

With US support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 201,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has claimed the lives of many.

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