Overview

• Nearly one million people remain in Gaza City, where UNICEF reports children are now 'fighting for survival' as essential services collapse.
• Only 44 of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition treatment centers are functioning, cutting off care for thousands of malnourished children.
• Hospitals are critically weakened, with 11 partly operating, five maintaining neonatal intensive care units, and 40 incubators running at up to 200% capacity.
• In the past two weeks, UNICEF supplied ready-to-use therapeutic food for more than 3,000 acutely malnourished children, complementary food for over 1,400 infants, and high-energy biscuits for more than 4,600 pregnant and breastfeeding women.
• Child malnutrition admissions surged from just over 2,000 in February to 13,000 in July and more than 7,200 in the first half of August, as UNICEF seeks $716 million and calls for Israeli authorization of aid access, protection of children, and the release of hostages by armed groups.