Overview

• Gaza health authorities reported nearly 12,000 children under five with acute malnutrition in July, the highest monthly figure on record.
• Local hospitals logged almost 200 hunger-related deaths in the enclave this week, including two young children.
• Of the malnourished children identified, about 2,500 are classified as suffering from severe acute malnutrition and need immediate therapeutic feeding.
• WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and representative Rik Peeperkorn warned that current nutrition supplies are critically insufficient to prevent further deterioration.
• Authorities said only 92 aid trucks entered Gaza on Wednesday, far below the 500–600 needed daily to meet the population’s basic food and medical requirements.