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Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid

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      Under this systematic blockade, more than 3,500 children under the age of five face imminent death by starvation, while approximately 290,000 children are on the brink of death,
      Aljazeera
      the GMO statement on Telegram said on Sunday
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      At a time when 1.1 million children daily lack the minimum nutritional requirements for survival, this crime is being perpetrated by the ‘Israeli’ occupation using starvation as a weapon, amid shameful international silence,
      Aljazeera
      it added
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      Tom Fletcher
      To the Israeli authorities, and those who can still reason with them, we say again: Lift this brutal blockade,
      The New York Times
      said Tom Fletcher, the U.N. humanitarian chief
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      Imagine you haven’t tasted meat, a boiled egg or even an apple in months,
      The New York Times
      Mr. Mohsen said
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      Drinkable water has become increasingly rare, so people have adapted,
      The New York Times
      said Ahmed al-Ijla, a father of three who, like most others in Gaza City, now drinks salty water
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      To the civilians left unprotected, no apology can suffice. But I am truly sorry that we are unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice.”
      The New York Times
      He added
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      Dialysis patients need a balanced diet, but everyone is surviving mainly on canned foods,
      The New York Times
      he said
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      The estimation is that 90 percent of the fuel that is in storage in Gaza today is inaccessible due to evacuation orders,
      The New York Times
      she said
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      Without urgent intervention and resumption of aid, we will lose more patients,
      The New York Times
      he said
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      We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza,
      The Independent
      said Michael Ryan, executive director of emergencies at the World Health Organization
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      It is absolutely clear that we are going to have more cases of wasting, which is the most dangerous form of malnutrition,
      The Independent
      said UNICEF spokesperson Jonathan Crickx
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      They are sentenced to death,
      The Independent
      said Dr. Ahmed al-Farrah, head of the pediatrics and obstetrics ward at Nasser Hospital
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      Breastfeeding needs food, and I am not able to give him enough,
      The Independent
      she says
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      This border closure is destroying us,
      The Independent
      she said
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      Finding a single meal has become an impossible quest,
      Aljazeera
      Ahmad al-Najjar, a displaced Palestinian in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera
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      If we admit all those who have acute malnutrition, we will need hundreds of beds, ... We can’t help many, anyway ... There is nothing in our hands.”
      The Independent
      says Dr. Yasser Abu Ghaly, acknowledging
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      I can’t believe this is the leg of a 7-month-old.”
      The Independent
      Lifting Sama’s scrawny legs up, her mother says
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      I wish they would give it to us every hour. He waits for it impatiently ... but they too are short on supplies,
      The Independent
      Abdelaal says
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      In two years, my child won’t be able to walk because of lack of food,
      The Independent
      Abdelaal says
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      I am exhausted before birth and after birth from lack of food,
      The Independent
      she says