The UN on Friday warned that the variety of malnourished kids within the Gaza Strip is rising at an “alarming rate” amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on assist, displacement, and assaults.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, citing figures by UNICEF at a news convention, stated “the number of malnourished children in Gaza is rising at an alarming rate, with more than 5,100 children between six months and five years of age admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in May alone.”
“The agency says this represents a nearly 50% increase compared to April and a 150% increase compared to February, when a ceasefire was in effect and aid was entering the Strip in significant quantities,” he added.
According to UNICEF, over 16,700 kids had been admitted for malnutrition therapy in Gaza within the first 5 months of 2025, a median of 112 kids every day.
“Each one of these cases is preventable. The food, water and nutrition treatments these children desperately need are being blocked from reaching them,” stated Dujarric.
He stated “the equivalent of 1,000 truckloads of health, nutrition and other supplies are outside the borders, ready to be delivered.”
Israeli authorities, Dujarric added, issued a brand new displacement order affecting two neighborhoods within the enclave, citing rocket hearth from the world.
“This has affected two neighborhoods where hundreds of families are living,” he stated.
He stated “no fuel has entered the strip for 16 weeks,” and that Israel has facilitated 12 of the 21 UN-coordinated humanitarian missions on Thursday, whereas 5 had been denied, and 4 had been cancelled.
In the occupied West Bank, Dujarric warned of looming pressured displacement in Masafer Yatta space, the place Israel has rejected all pending and new planning and zoning requests, placing over 1,200 Palestinians at heightened danger.
Source: www.anews.com.tr