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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wafaa Shurafa,Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath

At least 28 adults and 20 children starve to death in July as Gaza hunger crisis deepens

Naima Abu Ful with her malnourished son Yazan in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on 23 July 2025 - (AP)

Five starving children at a Gaza City hospital were wasting away, and nothing the doctors tried was working. The basic treatments for malnourishment that could save them had run out under Israel's blockade. The alternatives were ineffective. One after another, the babies and toddlers died over four days.

In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza.

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