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‘The Weak Treating the Weak’: Doctors in Gaza Are Fainting While Trying to Save Their Starving Patients
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 24 – The Gaza Health Ministry reports 113 deaths from malnutrition since October 2023, with 81 of the victims children amid an ongoing Israeli blockade limiting aid entry.
- Five malnourished children aged four months to 4 1/2 years died over four days in Gaza hospitals by July 24, 2025, amid worsening symptoms and food shortages.
- These deaths followed months of an Israeli blockade starting in March 2025 that mostly cut off food, medicine, and fuel, severely limiting treatment and aid flow.
- Hospitals like Patient's Friends overwhelmed daily with 200 to 300 malnourished children face staff fainting from hunger and treatment shortages as symptoms worsen.
- The UN World Food Program states that close to 100,000 women and children require immediate malnutrition treatment, while more than 100 aid organizations have issued warnings about the risk of widespread starvation due to restricted humanitarian assistance.
- The ongoing blockade risks accelerating deaths and long-term health damage, with doctors urging free aid entry to alleviate the humanitarian crisis and save lives.
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‘The weak treating the weak’: Doctors in Gaza are fainting while trying to save their starving patients
By Ivana Kottasová, Kareem Khadder, Mohammad Al Sawalhi, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Dr. Mohammad Saqer is hungry. So ravenous that he sometimes struggles to keep upright while treating his desperately ill patients at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. On Thursday, he fainted while working at the ward. And then, moments
"Children faint on the street from hunger." The photos of their skeletal bodies make the tour of the international press. Some newspapers like this have put those images on the front page. But who are they and what their stories? Aya Ashour, on the Daily Fact, told those of Muhammad Zakaria Al-Matouq, Osama Al-Raqab, Siwar Ashour. Arabic newspapers also talk about other stories. The reception of what remains of the Al Shifa hospital continues to…
On Friday, humanitarian organizations alerted an outbreak of child malnutrition in Gaza. A quarter of children aged six months to five years and pregnant women are affected. - "Hunger as a weapon of war": humanitarian organizations warn about child malnutrition in Gaza (International).
In the face of the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, the demands for immediate deliveries of aid to the area are continuing.
The Independent
The Independent (US)At least 28 people starve to death in July as Gaza hunger crisis deepens
Health workers and aid groups fear hunger building for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death
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