Inside the hospital, where doctors are undergoing treatment for malnutrition alongside their patients, surgeons say they are carrying out increasing numbers of amputations owing to the effects of acute hunger.
Salha, an orthopaedic surgeon, is receiving treatment from the hospital he runs including drugs and vitamins to treat conditions stemming from acute hunger.
The crisis worsened last week when the food charity World Central Kitchen, the only organisation outside the UN regularly providing hot meals, suspended operations after Israeli strikes killed seven staff members.
“But this will only work if humanitarian aid workers are operating in a safe environment – there has to be respect for their protection, because of the urgent need to access the most vulnerable throughout the Gaza Strip.”
“We call on the Israeli authorities to reverse their decision that bans Unrwa from reaching northern Gaza with food supplies,” said the organisation’s director of communications, Juliette Touma.
“It’s hit and miss, sometimes there are clearance issues, sometimes there are safety and security problems, and sometimes we are turned away from checkpoints or left there for hours, and desperate people come and help themselves to what’s on the truck.”
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