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October 1, 2025 Humanitarian aid
Israeli forces continue their offensive, attempting to establish full control over Gaza City. Meanwhile, according to Palestinian health authorities, 151 children have died from acute malnutrition in the Strip since the war began.
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One of the most recent victims was a nine-year-old girl, Jana. She was hospitalized twice, and both times she recovered. However, on September 17, she died. In August, Jana's sister, Juri, died of exhaustion.
"The world has failed Jan," said Tess Ingram, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"The little girl was forced to endure terrible suffering because of deliberate decisions that restricted food access to the Gaza Strip," she added.
Lack of help
Ingram also noted that the enclave's healthcare system has been devastated by the war and children often do not receive the care they need.
"Her last hope—medical evacuation outside of Gaza—was dashed. No country was willing to accept Jana," a UNICEF representative said.
Currently, children with severe and moderate malnutrition receive specialized therapeutic products in the remaining functioning hospitals in the Strip. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported that four more clinics in northern Gaza have closed this month alone. Only 14 medical facilities are operational in the entire Strip, and all are overwhelmed, primarily due to the large number of trauma patients admitted.
According to UNICEF, the malnutrition crisis has reached catastrophic proportions: all children under five—more than 320,000—are at risk. In July alone, 13,000 children were diagnosed with acute wasting, a record high. Since the beginning of the year, this figure has increased by more than 500 percent.
"This war must end. Humanitarian supplies—food and nutritional support—must be allowed into the Gaza Strip. Aid workers must be allowed to do their jobs," Ingram said.
How medical evacuations work
WHO-coordinated evacuations of patients from Gaza follow a strict seven-step protocol, from the dispatch of doctors to coordination with host countries and subsequent approval by Israeli authorities.
According to the latest WHO data, 7,841 patients have left the sector since October 7, 2023, more than 5,330 of whom are children. However, approximately 15,600 people still require evacuation.
On September 29, WHO assisted in the evacuation of 14 patients and 38 accompanying persons to Jordan, and 15 patients and 65 accompanying persons to Italy from the Palestine Red Crescent field hospital in Al-Mawasi.
"Patients, their families, and doctors are leaving here, accompanied by ambulances, buses, and WHO staff, to safely pass through the fighting zone to the Kerem Shalom crossing," said Athanasios Gargavanis, a trauma surgeon at WHO who leads the organization's team in Gaza.
From there, patients are transported to Ramon Airport in southern Israel, after which they are sent to their host countries.
The WHO has once again called for the resumption of sending Gazans to the West Bank and East Jerusalem for treatment, and noted that the list of countries willing to accept patients should be expanded.
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