Six-Year-Old Osama Ahmad, Weighing Nine Kilograms, Faces Severe Malnutrition Amid Israeli Blockade Since March 2 Affecting 1.1 Million Gaza Children

Six-year-old Palestinian child Osama Ahmad is suffering from malnutrition due to the Israeli siege, which has prevented the entry of essential supplies into the Gaza Strip for more than a month and a half. Gaza’s Government Media Office confirmed today that more than 1,100,000 https://t.co/Z8VxHUTuly

Osama is one of many children in Gaza who have been battling alarming levels of malnutrition since Israel implemented another total blockade of the Palestinian enclave on March 2. The complete border closure has cut off food and medicine entering Gaza, where more than 60,000 https://t.co/6ZeuTzBwV1

Urgent | Government media in Gaza: More than one million and one hundred thousand children suffer from severe malnutrition in the absence of food and lack of water