Overview

• Five-month-old Zeinab Abu Halib died of severe malnutrition after weighing less than 2 kilograms and lacking a specialized infant formula unavailable in Gaza.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 122 malnutrition-related deaths since 2023, and in the past three weeks 85 children and 42 adults died from starvation-related causes.
• Over 260,000 children under five currently suffer from acute malnutrition and treatment caseloads have quadrupled since mid-May.
• Near-total aid bans imposed by Israel in early March and a partial lifting in late May have kept humanitarian deliveries far below Gaza’s needs.
• Doctors Without Borders found that a quarter of children aged six months to five years and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its Gaza facilities were malnourished.