The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says its field team “has documented the deaths of dozens of elderly people in displacement camps due to starvation, malnutrition, or lack of treatment”, Al Jazeera reports.
“Many of these deaths were recorded as natural causes, owing to the absence of a clear reporting mechanism within the ministry and the tendency of families to bury their loved ones immediately,” it said on X.
It noted an “unprecedented surge” in daily deaths over the past two weeks, with hundreds of elderly people arriving each day at hospitals and primary care centres “in states of extreme exhaustion, seeking nutritional fluids”.