The head of the World Health Organization has emphasized the critical need for preventing famine in Gaza by opening up more land crossings into the strip. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted that while recent efforts to deliver food by air and sea are appreciated, only the expansion of land crossings will facilitate large-scale deliveries to avert famine.
Ghebreyesus expressed deep concern over the alarming malnutrition rates among children in northern Gaza, with up to 16% of children under age 5 now being malnourished. He pointed out that children are succumbing to the combined effects of malnutrition, disease, and inadequate access to water and sanitation facilities.
