Palestinian infant, only weeks old, dies of malnutrition in Gaza

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A Palestinian infant, only weeks old, has died of malnutrition in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.

“We’ve heard from the director of al-Shifa Hospital, Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who just announced that in the past few minutes, two more cases of [patients with] malnutrition were pronounced dead inside the hospital,” the reporter said.

One of them was a 35-day-old newborn baby who died of malnutrition.

Many of the [patients] are picked up from the streets; people are fainting in the streets.

Meanwhile, inside the hospitals, there isn’t much that can be done to help people. Resources are not available. The hospital is under resourced, it doesn’t have enough capacity because it has been dealing with the huge influx of injuries for the past months.

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