Gaza Short on Food for Malnourished Kids

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00:00Aid and humanitarian supplies inside the Gaza Strip are running out.

00:04UNICEF has already ran out of preventive nutritional supplies,

00:11and now we are facing a dire situation that we are running out of therapeutic supplies.

00:18We only have 3,000 cartons, that's equivalent of treating only 3,000 children.

00:24And that's really dangerous for children as they face hunger and malnutrition at the moment.

00:31In July alone, the first two weeks of July, we reached 5,000 children facing malnutrition,

00:40acute malnutrition in Gaza, which is a huge increase since the ceasefire in February.

00:47These numbers are just drawing a very dark picture that really puts the light on the dire situation of food insecurity in the Gaza Strip.

00:59Unfortunately, what we are seeing in Gaza right now is children and adults dying from malnutrition and hunger.

01:08This is just a symptom of the lack of aid and humanitarian supplies and basic supplies in general.

01:17I'll be there for me.

01:19I want to know.

01:20I want to know that...

01:22...and I'm feeling one of those days with the law of our country.

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