Overview

• Save the Children Canada reports that Gaza clinics see 200 to 300 malnourished patients daily as acute child malnutrition has risen tenfold over two months.
• Doctors Without Borders Canada says hospitals lack sterile equipment and clean sheets, forcing medical staff to donate their own blood to treat patients.
• Thousands of trucks loaded with food, water and medical supplies remain stalled at the Israel-Gaza border and are not entering at the scale required.
• International experts from Oxfam, War Child Alliance and other groups predict a worst-case famine scenario unless humanitarian access is restored immediately.
• Aid organizations are urging governments, including Canada’s, to pressure for an immediate cease-fire and full reopening of border crossings to avert further civilian catastrophe.