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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruth Michaelson

‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges

A mother wearing a black headscarf holds her child who is wrapped in a yellow and black blanket in her arms
A mother comforts her child, who is being treated for malnutrition at al-Awda hospital. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

Every morning, starving mothers arrive at the doors of al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza desperately seeking baby formula. Many mothers of newborns are unable to breastfeed, the head of the hospital said, because they are so underfed.

Inside the hospital, where doctors are undergoing treatment for malnutrition alongside their patients, surgeons say they are carrying out increasing numbers of amputations owing to the effects of acute hunger.

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