Gaza: A mother's desperate plea to feed her baby

Gazans are facing food shortages, as the WHO warns thousands of children are acutely malnourished.

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Weighing only 3kg (6.6lb), Abdulaziz has just been released from the intensive care unit, where he was treated for severe malnutrition.

His mother says she can’t get the food he needs in Gaza. “This is my only baby. He is supposed to weigh at least 5kg (11lb) and I am very worried about his health,” she says. “I can’t take him abroad because the borders are closed.”

Abdulaziz’s story is not unique. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 8,000 children under the age of five have been diagnosed and treated for acute malnutrition since the war began - of those 1,600 were severe cases.

Last week, WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had “already been 32 deaths attributed to malnutrition, including 28 among children under five".

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