The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says some 2,369 children have been treated for acute malnutrition in Gaza since January 1, Al Jazeera reports.
This includes 1,966 children diagnosed with moderate acute malnutrition and 403 children diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition, it said.
The agency added that acute malnutrition was almost non-existent in Gaza before the war and that the “lack of access to nutritious food and essential services over 15 months, including health care, water, sanitation and hygiene, has led to the spread of acute malnutrition, particularly among children under two years”.