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    Home - UK News - Mum of emaciated baby in Gaza says ‘I lost my husband I don’t want to lose her’

    Mum of emaciated baby in Gaza says ‘I lost my husband I don’t want to lose her’

    Mum of emaciated baby in Gaza says ‘I lost my husband I don’t want to lose her’

    Mum of emaciated baby in Gaza says ‘I lost my husband I don’t want to lose her’

    • WTX News Editor
    • May 23, 2025
    • 11:15 pm
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    Cliff Notes

    • The World Health Organisation reports nearly half a million people in Gaza facing catastrophic hunger and malnutrition, with aid efforts deemed insufficient amid ongoing blockades.

    • Despite Israel allowing some aid into Gaza, aid organisations criticise the limited number of trucks and the blockade on essential supplies, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.

    • Children, particularly infants like baby Aya, are severely affected by malnutrition, with families struggling to provide basic sustenance, leading to desperate conditions.

    Mum of emaciated baby in Gaza says ‘I lost my husband… I don’t want to lose her’ | World News

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    In mid-May, the World Health Organisation assessed that there were “nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death”.

    “This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time,” its report concluded.

    Israel‘s decision this week to reverse the siege and allow “a basic level of aid” into Gaza should help ease the immediate crisis.

    But the number of aid trucks getting in, so far fewer than 100 per day, is considered dramatically too few by aid organisations working in Gaza, and the United Nations accuses Israel of continuing to block vital items.

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    “Strict quotas are being imposed on the goods we distribute, along with unnecessary delay procedures,” said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres in New York on Friday.

    “Essentials, including fuel, shelter, cooking gas and water purification supplies, are prohibited. Nothing has reached the besieged north.”

    Nineteen of Gaza’s hospitals remain operational, all of them are overwhelmed with the number of patients and a lack of supplies.

    Image:
    Baby Aya at Rantisi hospital in northern Gaza is dangerously thin

    “Today, we receive between 300 to 500 cases daily, with approximately 10% requiring admission. This volume of inpatient cases far exceeds the capacity of Rantisi hospital, as the facility is not equipped to accommodate such large numbers,” Jall al Barawi, a doctor at the hospital, told us.

    At least 94% of the hospitals have sustained some damage, some considerable, according to the UN.

    Image:
    Jall al Barawi, a doctor at Rantisi hospital

    Paramedic crews are close to running out of fuel to drive ambulances.

    The lack of food, after an 11-week blockade, has left thousands malnourished and increasingly vulnerable to surviving injuries or recovering from other conditions.

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    Children are the worst affected.

    Our team in Gaza filmed with baby Aya at the Rantisi hospital in northern Gaza. She is now three months old and dangerously thin.

    Her skin stretches over her cheekbones and eye sockets on her gaunt, pale face. Her nappy is too big for her emaciated little body.

    Image:
    Aya’s nappy is too big for her emaciated little body.

    Lethal spiral

    Her mother Sundush, who is only 19 herself, cannot get enough food to produce breastmilk. Baby formula is scarce.

    Aya, like so many other young children, cannot get the vital nutrition she needs to grow and develop.

    It’s a lethal spiral.

    Image:
    This is what Aya looked like shortly after she was born

    “My daughter was born at a normal weight, 3.5kg,” Sundush tells us.

    “But as the war went on, her weight dropped significantly. I would breastfeed her, she’d get diarrhoea. I tried formula – same result. With the borders closed and no food coming in, I can’t eat enough to give her the nutrients she needs.”

    “I brought her to the hospital for treatment, but the care she needs isn’t available.

    “The doctor said her condition is very serious. I really don’t want to lose her, because I lost my husband and she’s all I have left of him. I don’t want to lose her.”

    Image:
    Aya and her mother Sundush

    Some of the aid entering Gaza now is being looted. It is hard to know whether that is by Hamas or desperate civilians. Maybe a combination of the two.

    The lack of aid creates an atmosphere of desperation, which eventually leads to a breakdown in security as everyone fights to secure food for themselves and their families.

    Only by alleviating the desperation can the security situation improve, and the risk of famine abate.

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