‘Our children are wasting away before our eyes’: starvation deaths on the rise in Gaza as famine continues by Tareq S. Hajjaj

On July 26, the Government Media Office issued a statement saying that over 100,000 children under the age of two — including 40,000 infants under one year old — were facing imminent “mass death” due to the complete absence of infant formula and nutritional supplements, combined with the continued closure of the crossings and the prevention of even the most basic essential supplies.

“We are facing an imminent, deliberate mass killing being carried out slowly against infants,” the statement said. “Mothers have been forced to feed them water instead of infant formula for days, as a result of the starvation and extermination policy pursued by the Israeli occupation.”