
All residents of the Gaza Strip suffer from malnutrition to varying degrees, Dr Saeed Salah, head of nutrition at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society, said yesterday. Salah stressed, “The situation in the north is catastrophic because 700,000 Palestinians are suffering from a politically created famine.” He added, in a statement reported by Al Jazeera: “All the residents of the Gaza Strip, especially the residents of the north, suffer from malnutrition to different extents, and they have lost weight in different proportions due to the lack of basic foods.” Salah pointed out that “the media highlights those who are living their last breath, while this stage should be prevented in the first place.” “Seventy per cent of the population in the […]
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