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Children in Gaza ‘barely talk’ due to famine, aid agencies say

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According to Hiba Tibi, the country director of the international  aid organisation CARE, children who are starving to death “can  barely talk and walk,” and that “hunger is slow and painful death.” Twenty percent of families have severe food scarcity, which the  UN reports is the situation in Gaza. This is when famine is  proclaimed. The fact that at least two out of every 10,000 people die each day  from starvation or malnutrition, and that one in three children  suffer from acute malnourishment, are additional requirements. “One in three children below the age of two is now acutely  malnourished, or ‘wasted,'” which means they are dangerously  underweight, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The World Health Organisation highlighted the long-term consequences of malnutrition in statement.

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