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Al Jazeera Staff

Significant part of Gaza facing ‘famine-like conditions’, WHO says

Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 8, 2024 [File: Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

Thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza have been diagnosed with malnutrition, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as Israel continues to severely restrict supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel to the territory.

“A significant proportion of Gaza’s population is now facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Wednesday.

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