After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.
Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.
Executive Director at UNICEF Ireland, Peter Power, joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.
We were also joined by trauma surgeon Nick Maynard, who has been working in Gaza and is seeing first-hand the devastation and alarming levels of malnutrition, particularly among children - and evidence of targeted shootings of civilians at Israel’s militarised distribution points.
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